Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social
Demography Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the …

In this article we survey common themes in recent migration research and comment on the
actual and potential contribution of regional science to this literature. There has been a …

Trends in concentrated neighborhood poverty in the United States have been volatile over
the past several decades. Using data from the 1980 to 2000 decennial census and the 2010 …

This study explores racial differences in the effect of neighborhood income on children's test
scores, self-esteem, and behavior, using data from both the Census and the Panel Study of …

The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great
Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the …

While the link between geographic and social mobility has long been a cornerstone of
sociological approaches to migration, recent research has cast doubt on the economic …

Using samples of census data from the University of Minnesota Population Center's
“Integrated Public Use Microdata Series”(IPUMS), we describe trends in African‐American …

Determining whether population dynamics provide competing explanations to place effects
for observed geographic patterns of population health is critical for understanding health …

This study examines how African Americans perceive and manage race and region as they
migrate to the US South—a region with a tenuous image of racial prejudice. The analysis is …

Between 1910 and 1970, millions of southern-born Americans migrated to the northern and
western regions of the country in search of better opportunities. Some traveled only short …