People who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to have poor physical and mental health, but this might be due to selective residential mobility rather than causal neighborhood effects. As a test of social causation, I examined whether persons were less healthy when they were living in disadvantaged neighborhoods than at other times when they were living in more advantaged neighborhoods. Da...

PURPOSE Explore the importance of residential mobility and use of services outside neighborhoods when interventions targeting low-income families are planned and implemented. DESIGN Analysis of cross-sectional telephone household survey data on childhood mobility and school enrollment in four large distressed cities. SETTING Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

Many epidemiological studies examining long-term health effects of exposure to air pollutants have characterized exposure by the outdoor air concentrations at sites that may be distant to subjects' residences at different points in time. The temporal and spatial mobility of subjects and the spatial scale of exposure assessment could thus lead to misclassification in the cumulative exposure esti...

Many events occurring to married or cohabiting individuals are the result of decisions made jointly by both partners. However, studies of life-course events usually take an individual or head-of-household perspective and so do not explicitly reflect the joint nature of these decisions. Household panel studies and population registers are a rich resource for the study of household events, but an...

While households’ general preference for low-density residential environments is well documented in the literature, little research in geography and urban planning has explicitly investigated how many and which households experience a state of mismatch in terms of land use patterns between their preferred residential neighborhood type and the type of neighborhood where they currently reside. Us...

Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals. If partners in a couple do not share evaluations of dwelling or neig...

1 Much of the intuition on household sorting was theoretical work in local public finance that started i includes Epple and Zelenitz (1981), Epple et al. (19 Fernandez and Rogerson (1996), Nechyba (1997) and E 2 Recent examples are found in Barrow and Rouse Bajari and Kahn (2005). 3 As Rubinfeld (1987) points out “the value and usef likely to diminish in the future, and an alternative or alte Q...

Housing choice behaviour is made up of a wide array of dynamic individual level behaviour which can be recreated and explored using agent-based modelling (ABM). In the UK, there has been a renewed focus on urban regeneration policies over the past decade by the national government. Such policies seek to deal with the problems of deprivation in communities segregated by socioeconomic status. Usi...

In this paper I explore the relationship between population and housing. I argue that this relationship is two-sided. On the one hand, the size of a population, and particularly the number of households, determines the demand for housing. On the other hand, the availability of suitable and affordable housing may attract certain categories of migrants. It also influences young people’s opportuni...

IZA DP No. 11076 OCTOBER 2017 Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants’ opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing resea...