The Role of Local Attributes in Community Choice
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چکیده
Residential location choices are analyzed to determine the significance of local attributes in the moving decision. A unique data set consisting of 602 recent movers in Maine is used to perform the analysis. Additionally, municipality-level data for 531 municipalities in Maine are used in the analysis. The comnlunity-level data are fiscal, social, and environmental in nature. A conditional logit model is estimated to model the choice of conlmunity as a function of the community characteristics, and a mixed logit model is estimated to model the choice of community as a fbnction of both community characteristics and characteristics of the household. The results suggest that quality of life attributes (specifically school quality, crime rate, parkland, lakes, and coast) play a significant role in a household's choice of community. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to Dr. Kathleen P. Bell for pointing me in the right direction, allowing me to make my own mistakes, and helping me pick up the pieces after the damage was done. Thank you to my family for supporting me through this process. A special thanks to my little brother, Billy, whose daily emails kept me sane and smiling. Finally, a thanks to my friends from Maine to Oregon who cheered me on the entire way.
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