Residential mobility varies sharply across school types

Evidence

The average number of moves for public school students is .57; for Catholic school students, .35; and for students in other private schools, .88. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Residential moves as an intergenerational-closure measure is a natural operationalization of the reader’s Bellodi piazza: stability in place is what lets witnesses and enforcers know each other across generations.
• QUESTION: The other-private-schools figure (.88) is higher than public (.57) yet their dropout rate is also high — is closure really the driver, or is something else separating Catholic schools specifically?

Related

• Frequent family moves break the social networks that constitute social capital. (similarity 0.82)
• Across all variables, family mobility most strongly predicts school dropouts. (similarity 0.79)