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Aratani, Yumiko; Cooper, Janice L. – Youth & Society, 2015
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to examine the relationship between running away from home between the ages of 12 and 14 and dropping from high school among youth. Propensity score matching was conducted in estimating the effect of running away on high school dropout while controlling for confounding…
Descriptors: Correlation, Runaways, Homeless People, Early Adolescents
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Myers, Scott M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
Having a child is a major determinant of geographic mobility. Little is known, however, about the opposite process--whether geographic mobility is a determinant of fertility. Drawing on social and human capital theories and research on fertility and migration to develop competing hypotheses, the author examines the effects of mobility on changes…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Migration, Social Capital, Birth Rate