The relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in African American students who have experienced geographic mobility was the focus of this study. Specifically, this study used quantitative methods to assess African American students from counties in Iowa to obtain information about the students' relocation from urban to…

The objective of this study was to explore a new method of analyzing the performance of substate economies. Conventional analyses of economic diversity and growth are limited by their reliance on static measures of economic structure. Such measures do not capture the patterns of growth dynamics or structural change a region may be experiencing.…

The objectives of this study were: (1) to determine the patterns of migration involved in farm to urban movement of families; (2) to compare the occupational achievement and rate of social and community participation of farm migrants with urban migrants and urban natives; and (3) to identify pre-migration and post-migration variables associated…