The life course perspective has proved to be a powerful instrument in develo** a general
theoretical framework to interpret a variety of phenomena pertaining to residential relocation …

This review traces the evolution of family migration research from one that was very narrowly
focused on the trailing wife effect, to a transdisciplinary research topic which has the …

This paper focuses on recent methodological and theoretical developments associated with
studies of long‐distance family migration. The starting point for the discussion is that …

In this paper we consider the effects of family migration on women's employment status,
using census microdata from Great Britain and the United States. We test a simple …

Residential mobility is the process whereby individuals and households adjust their
locations in cities. These moves, in the aggregate, change neighborhoods as well as …

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of
transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring …

Significant changes in family composition in the past quarter-century raise important
questions about life-course outcomes embedded in these family changes, especially in …

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test Costa and Kahn's colocation
hypothesis, which predicts that power couples—couples in which both spouses have …

This paper identifies that much geographical research exploring family migration decision‐
making has overlooked the issue of children's agency. Motivations for family migration are …

The migration of couples and families has thus far been approached mainly from human-
capital and gender perspectives. In this paper, we investigate how the male and female …