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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Residential Choice"”.
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
… I study the persistence of household residential choice using data from Boston during the Great Migration, where the in-migration of African Americans was a large demographic shock to existing neighborhood composition. Using novel panel data that tracks individual residential choices, …
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Modeling household residential choice using multiple imputation
… of random bidding models in simulating household residential choice behavior; rarely have random bidding models been applied in a micro-simulation context, due to insufficient data. Therefore, the main goal of this thesis is to explore a possible technique - Multiple Imputation - to integrate …
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Somewhere That's Green? visions of sustainable suburbia
… throughout its history as a primarily residential landscape combining the best aspects of city and country, suburbia has traditionally been painted with the rhetorically green brushstrokes of leaves, gardens and grass. In more recent decades, coinciding largely with rapid mass …
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School Choice Overseas: Are Parents Citizens or Consumers?
… more likely to choose their children's school by residential choice. In evaluating Korean schools, exiting parents gave lower marks to the local schools where their children attended while scoring Korean schools in general higher.
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Tiebout Sorting and Jurisdictional Homogeneity: Empirical Validity and Ethical Implications
… confounds attempts to infer Tiebout-motivated residential choice from observed socioeconomic homogeneity. I correct for this by focusing on socioeconomic difference across local government borders. In an investigation of socioeconomic sorting in Queens and Nassau Counties, NY, I find strong …
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Caregiver strain and quality of life: exploring the moderating role of caregiver age in an I/DD context
… for this population. Policy changes promoting residential choice have resulted in more people with I/DD living at home with aging family caregivers. Caregiving for offspring with I/DD can lead to caregiver strain, which affects the quality of life (QoL) of both the caregiver and the family …
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In pursuit of adulthood : the urban choices and trade-offs of young mothers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… young people begin to make decisions regarding residential choice, household economics, and their interpersonal and social obligations. Understanding the complexity behind these decisions can help demystify the calculations behind their urban choices. Recognizing the valid and poorly understood …
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Essays on economics of school and residential choices.
This thesis studies school and residential choices when private schooling is available and attending a public school is free of charge but requires a residence in the school attendance zone. Each of the three chapters focuses on different issues. The first chapter develops a model of competition …
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Who chooses? A sociological portrait of families active in school choice in urban areas in the U.S.
School choice and charter school research acknowledges that choosers, families that are active in school choice, are different than non-choosers, but the nature of this difference is rarely examined directly. For years, commentators have expressed concern that chooser families will tend to have …
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Residential Preference at Transit-oriented Development: A Visual Choice Experiment
Insufficient knowledge of residential preferences represents a major obstacle to achieving residential satisfaction and quality of life. This obstacle is even greater in the case of transit-oriented developments (TODs), as their success depends, in part, on the degree to which people's preferences …