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Rural Youth Residential Preferences: Understanding the Youth Development-Community Development Nexus

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  • Mary Ann Demi
  • Diane K. McLaughlin
  • Anastasia R. Snyder

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Residential aspirations of youth are influenced by family, school, and community characteristics. This study uses data from 7th and 11th grade students in 10 rural Pennsylvania school districts to identify community characteristics associated with rural youth aspirations to live in their home community when they are 30-years-old. Multinomial logistic regression models comparing rural home community to other places and don't know responses show that 7th and 11th grade youth who like their community “a lot” and who perceive their community to offer viable career opportunities are more likely to want to stay in their home community. Higher educational aspirations are associated with higher odds of wanting to leave the home community. Just over 60% of the youth in this study want to live somewhere other than their rural home community as an adult.

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  • Mary Ann Demi & Diane K. McLaughlin & Anastasia R. Snyder, 2009. "Rural Youth Residential Preferences: Understanding the Youth Development-Community Development Nexus," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(4), pages 311-330, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:40:y:2009:i:4:p:311-330
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330903279606
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    1. Julia Weiss & Livio Ferrante & Mariano Soler-Porta, 2021. "There Is No Place like Home! How Willing Are Young Adults to Move to Find a Job?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-20, July.
    2. Caryn M. Vazzana & Jeta Rudi-Polloshka, 2019. "Appalachia Has Got Talent, But Why Does It Flow Away? A Study on the Determinants of Brain Drain From Rural USA," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 33(3), pages 220-233, August.
    3. Martina Schorn, 2023. "Implementing youth-oriented policies: A remedy for depopulation in rural regions?," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 21(1), pages 1-1.
    4. Matthew M. Brooks, 2021. "Countering Depopulation in Kansas: An Assessment of the Rural Opportunity Zone Program," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 40(2), pages 137-148, April.

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