Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Role of School Context and Parenting on Racial Neighborhood Sorting

选择居住地涉及一系列潜在的重要因素，从住房面积、质量和成本到各种当地社区特征、设施和市政服务。先前的研究表明，最重要的是随着个人的一生而变化，抚养孩子的家庭特别关注当地的教育条件。本项目应用这些先前的见解来理解后民权时代的邻里种族隔离，分析当地学校种族多样性和强制性学校种族隔离政策如何影响白色和黑人家庭选择居住的地方以及他们为什么搬家。该项目旨在作为收入动态小组研究的统计分析，从1968年到2011年，几乎每年都有一个全国代表性的白色和黑人家庭样本。家庭住宅位置逐年分析，重点是如何成年人抚养年幼和学龄儿童的住宅选择不同的成年人谁没有照顾孩子的责任。来自美国人口普查的一系列社区级人口统计数据被用来对这些决定进行背景分析。此外，该项目使用地理软件将住房位置与教育环境联系起来，包括当地学校的种族组成和地区废除种族隔离政策，以及每个学生的支出，平均班级规模，以及近年来全校的阅读和数学考试水平。该项目将评估学校种族构成对有子女家庭作出离散住房选择的相对重要性，并与影响这些决定的各种非种族因素进行权衡。

Choosing where to live involves an array of potentially important factors, from housing size, quality and cost to various local neighborhood characteristics, amenities and municipal services. Prior research has shown that what matters most varies over individuals' lifetimes, and that families raising children are particularly attentive to local schooling conditions. This project applies these prior insights to understand neighborhood racial segregation in the post-Civil Rights era, analyzing how local school racial diversity and mandated school racial desegregation policies influence where white and black families choose to live and why they move.The project is designed as a statistical analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, which has followed a nationally representative sample of white and black families nearly every year from 1968-2011. Family residential location year-by-year is analyzed with a focus on how the residential choices of adults raising young and school-aged children differ from adults who do not have child caretaking responsibilities. A range of neighborhood-level demographic data from the U.S. Census is used to contextualize these decisions. In addition, the project uses geographic software to link housing location to educational context, including local school racial composition and district desegregation policy as well as per pupil expenditures, average class size, and, in more recent years, school-wide reading and math test proficiency levels. The project will evaluate the relative importance of school racial composition on the discrete housing choices of families with children weighed against the various non-racial factors that inform these decisions.