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School Instability

School Instability is an academic construct that refers to the frequency and unpredictability of changes in a student's educational enrollment and attendance due to housing insecurity, distinguishing it from other forms of academic disruption by its direct linkage to residential mobility and familial homelessness.

92

Publications

4.3K

Citations

201

Authors

95

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

26

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Publications

92

Disruption versus Tiebout improvement: the costs and benefits of switching schools

Eric A. Hanushek, John F. Kain, Steven G. Rivkin · Journal of Public Economics · 2003 · 447 citations

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Can Good Principals Keep Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools? Linking Principal Effectiveness to Teacher Satisfaction and Turnover in Hard-to-Staff Environments

Jason A. Grissom · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 2011 · 287 citations

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Patterns of Urban Student Mobility and Local School Reform

David Kerbow · Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) · 1996 · 241 citations

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The Affordable Housing Crisis: Residential Mobility of Poor Families and School Mobility of Poor Children

Sheila Crowley · The Journal of Negro Education · 2003 · 158 citations

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A Macro-Level Model of School Disorder

Wayne N. Welsh, Robert Stokes, Jack R. Greene · Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency · 2000 · 137 citations

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1–5 of 92

Authors

201

  1. SG
    Steven G. Rivkin

    Amherst College, United States

    3 publications · 483 citations

    3

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  2. KW
    Kimber W. Malmgren

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    3 publications · 150 citations

    3

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  3. EA
    Eric A. Hanushek

    Hoover Institution, United States

    3 publications · 483 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. JF
    John F. Kain

    National Bureau of Economic Research, United States

    3 publications · 483 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. MW
    Michael W. Kirst

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 50 citations

    2

    h-index

1–5 of 201

Institutions

95

  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    698 citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    606 citations

  3. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    532 citations

  4. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    966 citations

  5. Amherst College

    Amherst Center, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    483 citations

  6. University of Missouri

    Columbia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    355 citations

  7. California State University Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    203 citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

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Venues

  1. The Journal of Negro Education

    7 publications · 376 citations

    7

    h-index

  2. Children and Youth Services Review

    5 publications · 277 citations

    5

    h-index

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  4. Social Psychology of Education

    2 publications · 44 citations

    2

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  5. Journal of Youth and Adolescence

    2 publications · 40 citations

    2

    h-index

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