The high rates of youth migration to urban and economic centers, in the context of persistent poverty and devastating HIV/AIDS burden, have raised intricate social policy challenges in developing countries. Using the 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data, descriptive statistics,...

In this article the authors replicate and extend the methodological analysis of Massey and Denton (1988), which conceptualized residential segregation as a multidimensional construct with five axes of spatial variation: evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering. To...

Three studies are reported which examine the influence of individual differences among US citizens on support for nuclear disarmament and moratorium policies. Results from the first study showed several significant differences between supporters and non-supporters of a nuclear moratorium, with...

As a rule of thumb. about one-fifth of all Americans change residence in a given year, and over the course of five years, about half of all persons change residence. While this generalization has remained roughly true over the last few decades, there have been appreciable shifts in the relative...

In 2009 Oliver Williamson was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of economic governance. Williamson was central to the emergence of the transaction cost framework as an important aspect of social scientific analysis. Part of this approach makes important efficiency...

The increasing diversity of immigrant-receiving countries calls for measures of residential segregation that extend beyond the conventional two-group approach. The authors represent simultaneously the relative social distance occupied by a wide array of ethnic groups. They use census tract...