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Accounting for space in intrametropolitan household location choices

Ozturk, Erdogan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054570168

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2003, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.
The objective of this study is to estimate a model of household residential location decisions. In particular, this research focuses on determining the relative importance of space itself vs. neighborhood characteristics that happen to be spatially distributed. Distinguishing between these two influences of space in household location decisions is important because they have different implications for the evolution of urban form. To investigate these questions, this research develops and estimates several discrete choice models of household location using a unique data set on repeated home buyers in 1998 within Franklin County, Ohio. A distinguishing feature of this research is the explicit consideration of the spatial dimension of intra-metropolitan location decisions within a discrete choice framework. This study considers different sources of error dependency and attempts to correct for them using data in which the spatial error component has been removed via a spatial filtering technique The empirical results demonstrate the importance of addressing the spatial dependency problem. In comparing the results from a naive model with those from the spatially filtered models, spatial dependency is found to be a serious problem and estimation without controlling it gives inconsistent as well as inefficient parameter estimates. Results show that a number of expected variables influence household location decisions, including public school quality, crime rate, unemployment rate, population density, age of housing stock, and socioeconomic characteristics of the neighborhood residents, such as percentage of African-American population, median income, percentage of college graduates and owner occupied housing. The empirical results show that the spatial location of a neighborhood relative to the quality of neighborhoods surrounding it matters. Therefore, a neighborhood’s location in space matters beyond its relative distance to employment and other destinations. On the other hand, while moves to some inner and outer suburbs exhibit a distance bias, the general finding is that moves to the outer suburbs do not appear to be constrained by either distance or geographic sector. We conclude that it is the spatial distribution of neighborhood characteristics, including the spatial location of neighborhoods relative to each other, that drive household location decisions.
Elena Irwin (Advisor)
Economics, General
spatial dependency; location choice

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  • Ozturk, E. (2003). Accounting for space in intrametropolitan household location choices [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054570168

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ozturk, Erdogan. Accounting for space in intrametropolitan household location choices. 2003. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054570168.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ozturk, Erdogan. "Accounting for space in intrametropolitan household location choices." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054570168

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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