Resources and Opportunities for Neighborhood Attainment

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要此修订后的申请描述了一项研究计划，旨在探索不同社会经济和种族/民族组成的美国社区之间的移民模式和决定因素。使用近40年的个人和家庭层面的数据，从面板研究的收入动态，结合邻里层面的数据从四个十年一次的人口普查，拟议的研究超越了以前的研究邻里间迁移的决定因素，出席严格的大都市地区的特点，在其中嵌入邻里的影响。众所周知，种族、民族和社会阶层的居住隔离程度，以及维持这些高水平隔离的种族和阶级特定的邻里间迁移倾向，在美国大都市地区差异很大。但是，很少有研究试图解释为什么维持高水平的种族，民族或经济居住隔离的邻里间迁移模式在大都市地区差异如此明显。通过聚集邻里水平的特点和他们的相互关系，以大都市的水平，并通过应用统计技术，适用于多层次的数据结构的分析，所提出的分析有望大大提高我们的理解，为什么家庭的倾向，在不同的种族，民族或社会经济组成的社区之间移动大都市地区如此广泛。公共卫生相关性：众所周知，社区的社会经济和人口状况会影响公共卫生的许多方面，并部分解释健康行为和健康结果的种族和民族差异。因此，更多地了解导致在不同类型的社区居住的迁移行为是一个重要的科学目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary This revised application describes a program of research designed to explore the patterns and determinants of migration between U.S. neighborhoods of varying socioeconomic and racial/ethnic composition. Using almost forty years of individual- and family-level data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, in conjunction with neighborhood-level data drawn from four decennial censuses, the proposed study goes beyond prior research on the determinants of inter-neighborhood migration by attending rigorously to the influence of characteristics of the metropolitan areas in which neighborhoods are embedded. It is well-known that levels of residential segregation by race, ethnicity, and social class, as well as the race- and class-specific inter-neighborhood migration propensities that sustain these high levels of segregation, vary widely across U.S. metropolitan areas. But little research has attempted to explain why the inter-neighborhood migration patterns that sustain high levels of racial, ethnic, or economic residential segregation vary so markedly across metropolitan areas. By aggregating neighborhood-level characteristics and their inter-relationships to the metropolitan level, and by applying statistical techniques appropriate for the analysis of multilevel data structures, the proposed analysis holds promise for substantially enhancing our understanding of why families' propensity to move between neighborhoods of varying racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic composition varies so widely across metropolitan areas. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The socioeconomic and demographic conditions of neighborhoods are known to affect many dimensions of public health, and to partly explain racial and ethnic differences in health behaviors and health outcomes. Therefore, learning more about the migration behaviors that lead to residence in different types of neighborhoods is an important scientific objective.