The impact of childhood mobility on exposure to neighborhood socioeconomic context over time.
We used the 1998-1999 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, with data collected in kindergarten, first, third, fifth, and eighth grades, in a descriptive analysis of associations between early childhood residential mobility frequency and neighborhood context changes. We found that children who move frequently appear initially to move into higher-socioeconomic-status neighborhoods but eventually move back to lower-socioeconomic-status neighborhoods, exposing frequent movers to diverse neighborhood contexts. These findings have implications for policy and research that seeks to link neighborhood context to health.
Elisabeth Dowling Root and Jamie L. Humphrey are with the Institute of Behavioral Sciences and Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Elisabeth Dowling
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Root
Jamie L
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Humphrey
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012923:Social Class; D014481:United States