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Title: What We Have and Where We Live: Race, Wealth, and Neighborhood Locational Attainment
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Woldoff, Rachael A. |
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What We Have and Where We Live: Race, Wealth, and Neighborhood Locational Attainment Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2003. Also: http://www.ohiolink.edu.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi/Woldoff%20Rachael%20A.%20M.A.pdf?acc%5Fnum=osu1059767902 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: OhioLINK Keyword(s): Black Studies; Census of Population; Ethnic Differences; Family Characteristics; Geocoded Data; Hispanic Studies; Home Ownership; Human Capital; Neighborhood Effects; Racial Differences; Residence; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wealth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Most Americans want to live in quality neighborhoods, but there are great disparities in the characteristics of residential communities across the United States. Why do some households live in better neighborhoods than others? Specifically, why do African American and Latino households live in neighborhoods that are demographically different from those of whites with similar incomes? Part of the answer may be that individual levels of economic resources--such as wealth--improve the chances of living in a neighborhood that is congruent with one's economic profile. This research examines the impact of wealth, other individual characteristics (location, family of origin, human capital, and current family characteristics) on residential neighborhood attributes using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and residential neighborhood data from the U.S. Census. I use OLS regression to study the importance of explanatory variables--particularly wealth--in predicting three forms of locational attainment: neighborhood racial/ethnic composition, neighborhood socioeconomic status, and neighborhood stability. The results show that wealthier individuals have more access to neighborhoods with representative distributions of whites, higher incomes, and greater homeownership. The locational returns to individual characteristics vary by group and outcome, but Latinos have the most consistent locational returns. In general, the findings for Latinos show consistent support for the spatial assimilation model, while the results are more mixed for African Americans. Consistent with place stratification, this study finds that education, employment, and family stability often increase African Americans' spatial assimilation, but not to the same extent as Latinos. Additional support for this model comes from examining wealth, a characteristic that significantly predicts residential location for all groups. Being able to secure a home in a good community is an important goal f or most people in this country. This research has important implications for understanding the determinants of individuals' residential outcomes and the role wealth plays in those outcomes. Given that research has documented racial/ethnic differences in residential outcomes, this research has timely and relevant implications for understanding why the divergences in racial residential patterns are so pronounced and whether racial/ethnic differences in wealth help to explain these patterns. Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/ |
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Woldoff, Rachael A. What We Have and Where We Live: Race, Wealth, and Neighborhood Locational Attainment. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2003.. |