Are Millennials leaving town? Yes, they are. Are young adults leaving town? No, they are not. The seemingly contradicting answers are due to the fact that age and birth…
The draw of white and well-resourced suburban public schools has long fueled segregation in America’s metropolitan areas, but what happens when these schools become more…
Since the mid-twentieth century, many American suburbs have transformed from lily white enclaves to multiracial milieus. How do advantaged families respond? With residential…
In about a third of all households—and in at least 40 percent of black and Hispanic households—at least one person works in a job that requires them be close to other people…
Packing boxes and moving trucks are a familiar experience for nearly everyone, whether their most recent move was last year or ten years ago. Americans have been moving much…
In the 1980s, nearly one in five Americans moved every year. About one in ten Americans moved between 2018 and 2019. Residential mobility rates have been falling for decades…
The COVID-19 pandemic, which hit during a resurgence of household formations in the US, could usher in a long-lasting slowdown in household growth that was becoming evident…
Hyojung Lee, Dowell Myers, Johanna Thunell, Julie Zissimopoulos
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March 1, 2020
This study examines the role of direct parental assistance in their adult children's home buying, net of other resources. Past research has cited the importance of down…
When I present research on residential mobility and migration in the United States, people are often surprised by the fact that many major US cities are growing but also…
Student loan debt has increased substantially over the last two decades, as has the number of households deferring their student loan payments, according to Piling Ever…