If you move, I move: The social influence effect on residential mobility.

ABSTRACT: There are many theories that account for why households move between residential areas. In this paper, we advance on this by formulating a new mechanism whereby a household's probability of leaving a neighborhood is informed by the number of other households who have previously left that neighborhood. We call this mechanism: the social influence (SI) effect. By applying matching to Swedish register data for Stockholm County (1998-2017), and after adjusting for theoretically relevant confounders from the existing literature, we find that SI has a significant effect on neighborhood out-mobility. Furthermore, we find that the SI effect is moderated by the visibility with which others' behaviors is observed, measured as the number of previous out-movers, the distance to ego, and its salience i

SUBMITTER: de la Prada AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258896 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature