Scott South's Research Projects

Racial and Ethnic Patterns of Residential Mobility

• This project uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine trends between 1968 and 1997 in the patterns and determinants of residential mobility between poor and nonpoor neighborhoods, between central cities and suburbs, and between predominantly black, racially-mixed, and predominantly white neighborhoods, and to explore patterns and determinants of inter-neighborhood residential mobility among U.S. Latinos.

Residential Mobility and Adolescent Risk Behavior

• This project uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the impact of residential mobility and school transitions on American youth's sexual activity, educational attainment and academic achievement, delinquency and criminal involvement, suicidality, and other key adolescent risk behaviors.