Decomposing Residential Self-Selection via a Life-Course Perspective

Cynthia Chen and Haiyun Lin
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Cynthia Chen: Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Haiyun Lin: Civil Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA

Environment and Planning A, 2011, vol. 43, issue 11, 2608-2625

Abstract: We propose a decomposition of residential self-selection by understanding the process of its formation. We take a life-course perspective and postulate that locations experienced early in life can have a lasting effect on our locational preferences later in life. In other words, what was experienced spatially is a key factor contributing to our residential self-selection, and our preferences in residential locations are formed long before the onset of our self-selection. We further hypothesize that this prior-location influence is modified by the duration and recency of the prior stay. Using a dataset collected in the New York City Area, we estimated a series of multinomial logit models to test these hypotheses. The results confirm the prior-location influence and demonstrate that this precedes residential self-selection and is impacted by its own properties such as duration and recency. Furthermore, the analysis separating child-bearing households from non-child-bearing households shows an interaction between prior-location influence and the presence of children.

Date: 2011
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