A growing proportion of children live in unaffordable, overcrowded, or doubled-up housing, raising concerns among scholars of child wellbeing. These arrangements may affect children through increased exposure to insecure mobility such as frequent or reactive moves. Though scholars consider resource-strained arrangements insecure, the assumption that they lead to insecure mobility is quantitatively untested. Further, demographic theory suggests that these arrangements would lead to purposive moves, which are calculated adjustments to things like costs, space, or independence that have plausibly neutral or beneficial effects for children. I use individual-fixed effects regressions and restricted-access residential histories from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess how living in resource-strained housing predicts exposure to mobility outcomes for children. Consistent with literature on housing insecurity, severe cost burdens and doubling up with non-kin predict higher probabilities of either frequent or reactive moves, and severe overcrowding precedes moves to high-poverty neighborhoods. Aligned with a traditional view on mobility, analyses also suggest that cost burdens, overcrowding, and doubling up lead to purposive moves to less expensive housing, more spacious housing, and more independent housing arrangements, respectively. Together, these findings suggest that housing strains, in the absence of poverty, increase the likelihood of a set of moves that have generally ambivalent implications for children’s life chances. However, families in poverty may lack the resources necessary to make moves that address their housing needs and aspirations. These findings contradict long-held rules of thumb, suggesting a reconsideration of how we collectively define, study, and respond to insecurity.

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他们什么时候没有安全感？有孩子的家庭的住房安排和居住流动性

越来越多的儿童生活在负担不起、过度拥挤或双重住房中，这引起了儿童福祉学者的担忧。这些安排可能会通过增加暴露于不安全的行动能力（例如频繁或被动的移动）来影响儿童。尽管学者们认为资源紧张的安排是不安全的，但它们导致不安全流动性的假设在数量上未经检验。此外，人口学理论表明，这些安排将导致有目的的搬迁，即对成本、空间或独立性等因素进行的计算调整，这些调整对儿童具有看似中立或有益的影响。我使用收入动态面板研究中的个体固定效应回归和限制访问住宅历史来评估生活在资源紧张的住房中如何预测儿童的流动性结果。与关于住房不安全的文献一致，严重的成本负担和与非亲属加倍预示着频繁或被动搬迁的可能性更高，并且在搬到高度贫困社区之前会出现严重的过度拥挤。与传统的流动性观点一致，分析还表明，成本负担、过度拥挤和加倍导致分别有目的地转向更便宜的住房、更宽敞的住房和更独立的住房安排。总之，这些发现表明，在没有贫困的情况下，住房压力会增加一系列搬迁的可能性，这些搬迁通常对儿童的人生机会产生矛盾的影响。然而，贫困家庭可能缺乏必要的资源来采取行动以满足他们的住房需求和愿望。 这些发现与长期以来的经验法则相矛盾，表明我们应该重新考虑我们如何共同定义、研究和应对不安全感。