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，从房屋的大小、质量和成本，到当地各种社区特征、便利设施和市政服务。先前的研究已经表明，最重要的是什么在个人的一生中有所不同，养育孩子的家庭特别关注当地的教育条件。这个项目应用这些先前的见解来理解后民权时代的社区种族隔离，分析当地学校种族多样性和强制的学校种族隔离政策如何影响白人和黑人家庭选择居住的地方以及他们为什么搬家。该项目旨在对收入动态小组研究进行统计分析，该研究从1968年到2011年几乎每年都跟踪调查具有全国代表性的白人和黑人家庭样本。每年分析家庭居住地点，重点是抚养年幼和学龄儿童的成年人与没有照看孩子责任的成年人在居住选择上有何不同。来自美国人口普查的一系列社区层面的人口数据被用来解释这些决定的背景。此外，该项目使用地理软件将住房位置与教育背景联系起来，包括当地学校的种族构成和学区取消种族隔离政策，以及根据学生支出、平均班级人数以及最近几年全校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的家庭的离散住房选择的相对重要性，并对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.