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Stephanie Sowl; Rachel A. Smith; Michael G. Brown – Research in Higher Education, 2025
While college access and choice processes are well documented, the post-college residential mobility of graduates has ramifications for the long-term benefits of state and local investments in education. In particular, we examine factors that shape whether youth who depart home for college return to the communities of their adolescence by middle…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Place of Residence, Community Characteristics, Geographic Location
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Powers, Mary G.; Thacker, Charlene – International Migration Review, 1975
Examines the relationship between mobility and fertility among women in a low income urban neighborhood, comparing recent movers with long-term residents in one neighborhood in Bronx, New York with a view toward clarifying the relationship between fertility and intra-urban migration or mobility; movers are found to have lower fertility than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Demography, Educational Background
Kuehn, John A. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Discusses impact on rural economy and services of retirees moving into nonmetro counties. Describes location and characteristics of the new, predominantly rural, retirement counties. (LFL)
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Older Adults, Population Trends, Relocation
Brown, Warren A.; Zuiches, James J. – 1986
Based on data obtained from a 1985-86 mail survey of 666 current and former residents of New York State identified from Department of Motor Vehicle lists of licensed drivers, the study examines collective and independent contributions of social and economic bonds, residential preferences, and residential satisfaction on migration expectations of…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Expectation, Geographic Location, Homeowners
Long, Larry H. – 1974
This paper relates frequency of interstate migration and the likelihood of a child's being enrolled in school at the modal grade for age, controlling for socioeconomic status of the family. The 1970 Census of Population obtained information on school enrollment and current grade, state of birth, residence in 1965, and residence in 1970. A measure…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Census Figures, Enrollment
Yinger, John – 1975
Racial prejudice is said to influence strongly the locational decisions of households in urban areas. This paper introduces racial prejudice into a model of an urban area and derives several results about residential location. A previously developed long-run model of an urban area adds a locational dimension to a model of the housing market under…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Ploch, Louis A. – 1985
Out-of-state persons moving to Maine during the July through December period of either 1980 or 1983 were queried to determine why they chose Maine, what their levels of satisfaction were with life in Maine, and in what activities they participated or planned to participate. The majority of the 417 survey respondents were from large counties in the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Satisfaction, Family Mobility, Geographic Location