Does Residential Mobility Affect Child Development at Age Five? A Comparative Study of Children Born in US and UK Cities
Does Residential Mobility Affect Child Development at Age Five? A Comparative Study of Children Born in US and UK Cities
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10.1037/dev0001288
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发表时间：
2022-04-01
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4
通讯作者：
Lennon, Mary Clare
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作者：
Gambaro, Ludovica;Buttaro, Anthony, Jr.;Lennon, Mary Clare
居住地的流动性是家庭生活的正常特征，但被认为是破坏儿童发展的根源。流动性本身可能产生直接后果，也可能反映家庭的能力和脆弱性。本文探讨了居住地的变化和5岁儿童的语言和行为得分之间的关联，从三个方面对文献做出贡献。首先，它比较了两个国家，通过借鉴美国的脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究（N = 1，820）和英国的城市子样本。Millennium队列研究（N =多达7，967）。其次，除了考虑到广泛的人口特征，它适用于逆概率权重，以尽量减少可观察到的选择偏差与住宅的流动性和进一步控制广泛的家庭变化，往往同时发生的移动。第三，本文通过纳入家庭迁入地和迁出地的类型，增加了对居住流动性的现有研究。个人层面的纵向数据与邻里社会经济地位的客观衡量标准相联系，以衡量家庭搬迁的质量。研究结果表明，搬家并不一定对儿童有害。在这两个国家中，某些流动的不良结果不是由于流动本身，而是由于流动发生的背景。
Residential mobility is a normal feature of family life but thought to be a source of disruption to a child's development. Mobility may have its own direct consequences or reflect families' capabilities and vulnerabilities. This article examines the association between changes of residence and verbal and behavioral scores of children aged 5, contributing to the literature in three ways. First, it compares two countries, by drawing on the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study in the United States (N = up to 1,820) and an urban subsample of the U.K. Millennium Cohort study (N = up to 7,967). Second, beside taking into account an extensive range of demographic characteristics, it applies inverse probability weights to minimize observable selection bias associated with residential mobility and further controls for a wide range of family changes that often co-occur with moves. Third, the article adds to extant research on residential mobility by incorporating the type of locality from and into which families move. Individual-level longitudinal data are linked to objective measures of neighborhood socioeconomic status to gauge the quality of moves families make. Results show that residential moves are not inevitably deleterious to children. In both countries the poorer outcomes of some moves result not from moving per se but rather from the context in which they occur.