“Should We Stay or Should We Go now?”

Should we stay or should we go?

With the potential benefit of positive movement in the housing market and now having two properties this may place you in a good position to increase your retirement nest egg if you choose to sell your family home when you downsize. Depending on your situation you may even be able to keep the family home as an investment. One of the biggest decisions for many retirees is whether to stay in the ...

Summarising: Where Are We Now? Where Should We Go?

Should I Stay or Should I Go

This paper considers migration as an investment decision. It develops a continuoustime stochastic model to explain the optimal timing of migration, in the presence of ongoing uncertainty over wage differentials. The results show that individuals prefer to wait before migrating, even if the present value of the wage differential is positive, because of the uncertainty and the sunk costs associat...

Should I stay or should I go?

In this issue of Neuron, Lee et al. (2016) assessed the brain-wide effects of stimulating the direct and indirect pathway by optogenetic activation of D1 and D2 striatal neurons. This work demonstrates the exquisite power of combining cell-type-specific perturbation methods with focal and whole-brain measurements of brain activity.

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Data from a longitudinal study of older adults in an upstate New York county (N = 333) show that poor housing “fit” increases the likelihood that older adults are currently considering a move, as does lower residential satisfaction. Those adults who said only that they “might consider moving” focused on health transitions that might signal a need for a new housing situation. Residential satisfa...