Print Email Facebook Twitter Selective mobility, segregation and neighbourhood effects Title Selective mobility, segregation and neighbourhood effects Author Boschman, S.E. Contributor Van Ham, M. (promotor) Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Research for the Built Environment Date 2015-11-12 Abstract Despite a large body of research on neighbourhood effects, there are no clear conclusions how much, if any, independent effect the neighbourhood has on its residents. This is largely due to selection effects. It is therefore crucial to gain more insight in selective residential mobility and neighbourhood choice. A better understanding of selectivity will help to address and reduce selection bias. This thesis provides these insights. It shows ethnic, income and household differences in residential mobility preferences and behaviour and explains why different people move to different neighbourhoods. Segregation is found to be partly voluntary, caused by group differences in preferences, and partly involuntary, caused by group differences in constraints induced by housing market characteristics or discrimination. Additionally, it studies neighbourhood effects of ethnic minority concentration. Bringing together the literatures on residential mobility and neighbourhood effects, this thesis contributes to the knowledge on selectivity and selection bias necessary to advance neighbourhood effects research. Subject selective mobilitysegregationneighbourhood effectsselection biasethnicityown group preferencesurban restructuring To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fa98257a-c657-44eb-b3c2-8cced496d4ec Embargo date 2015-11-12 ISBN 9789461865618 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2015 Boschman, S.E. Files PDF Selective_mobility_segreg ... schman.pdf 4.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fa98257a-c657-44eb-b3c2-8cced496d4ec/datastream/OBJ/view