title: Neighborhood context and residential mobility.
abstract: This paper extends the search for neighborhood contextual effects to residential mobility. We propose that neighborhood consists of subjective and objective domains, both of which are crosscut by substantive (social/physical) and temporal (current/change) dimensions. Measures of neighborhood characteristics consistent with our conceptualization are used to estimate the impact of context on mobility thoughts and on actual mobility in a sample of Nashville residents. Although individual statuses such as age and tenure remain important antecedents of mobility, subjective features of neighborhood context also play a role--albeit limited and indirect--in the decision to move or to stay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Oropesa
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Kanan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002958:City Planning; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment; D013714:Tennessee; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*