In this paper a dynamic household model in connection with a comprehensive urban housing market model for Amsterdam is presented. Household dynamics is modelled here by using the methodology of multidimensional demography. A consistent analysis of the components of a dynamic spatial housing market system incorporating various submodules, multiple factors, spatial aggregation levels, and degrees...

Residential relocation is a way for older adults to cope with income changes, health and other life cycle events such as the loss of partner. The number movers aged 60 incre...

BACKGROUND We assessed mobility in different life stages over a 29-year period from adolescence through adulthood and its correlation with psychosocial stress and vital exhaustion at ages 32 and 42 years. METHODS Data were derived from the Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study, an observational longitudinal study of 420 boys and girls from age 13 to 42 years. Measurements included cu...

This paper evaluates the welfare effects of in-situ slum upgrading and relocation programs using data for 5,000 households in Mumbai, India. We estimate a model of residential location choice in which households value the ethnic composition of neighborhoods and employment accessibility in addition to housing characteristics. The importance of neighborhood composition and employment access impli...

Older people who experience declining health are often faced with difficult decisions about possible residential relocation. The research aim was to determine how five distinct dimensions—functional status, features of current housing, social networks, features of retirement communities, and financial considerations—affect decisions to relocate to a retirement community. A vignette experiment w...

OBJECTIVES We attempt to understand the influence of residential mobility on changes in objective activity of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) limitations, while taking into account the subjective reason for the move. METHODS We examine noninstitutionalized adults aged 70 and older who are in the Longitudinal Study of Aging. We use bivariate regression to identify differences be...

1 Residential satisfaction is an important proxy for people ́s wellbeing and for relocation behavior. In 2 this paper we focus on gaining insight into the residential satisfaction of households near highways, 3 based on survey data collected among 1,230 respondents in the Netherlands. Using ordinal regression 4 analysis, we studied the effect of accessibility and negative externalities, alongsid...