Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Lina Bergström (), Maarten van Ham and David Manley ()
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Lina Bergström: Uppsala University
David Manley: University of Bristol

No 5238, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood choice should take these dimensions into account. We propose the use of a conditional logit model. From this approach we can gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a particular neighbourhood over alternative destinations. We use Swedish register data to model neighbourhood choice for all households which moved to a neighbourhood in the city of Uppsala between 1997 and 2006. Our results show that neighbourhood sorting is a highly structured process where households are very likely to choose neighbourhoods where the neighbourhood population matches their own characteristics.

Keywords: neighbourhood; housing choice; sorting; conditional logit; residential mobility; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 J60 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2010-10
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Published - published in: Environment and Planning A , 2011, 43 (6), 1381-1399

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