Geography of the Family by Kai A. Konrad, Harald Künemund, Kjell Erik Lommerud and Julio R. Robledo We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The first-born child’s location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other. These strategic considerati...

Here, a class of structures called “generalized location systems” is introduced, which can be used to characterize a range of social processes. An exponential family of distributions is developed for modeling such systems, allowing for the incorporation of both attributional and relational covariates. Methods are shown for simulation and inference using the location system model. Two illustrati...

BACKGROUND Many factors influence participation in sport and Physical Activity (PA). It is well established that socio-economic status (SES) is a critical factor. There is also growing evidence that there are differences in participation patterns according to residential location. However, little is known more specifically about the relationship of PA participation and frequency of participatio...

BACKGROUND The number of sports facilities, sports clubs, or city parks in a residential neighbourhood may affect the likelihood that people participate in sports and their preferences for a certain sports location. This study aimed to assess whether objective physical and socio-spatial neighbourhood characteristics relate to sports participation and preferences for sports locations. METHODS ...

This paper analyzes price tradeoffs between residential quality and location factors in the Beijing housing market. Unlike most housing markets, location factors completely dominate housing prices in this market. The main reason for this appears to be the physical size of central Beijing, where travel times between different urban activity centers are comparable to typical suburban-urban commut...

OBJECTIVES to enhance identification of older nursing and residential home residents in a national sample and describe their chronic disease prevalence. DESIGN cross-sectional analysis of an established primary care database (The Health Improvement Network). SETTING 326 English and Welsh general practices. SUBJECTS 435,568 patients aged > or = 65. Care home residents were identified by ei...

The choice of residence households generally involves trade-offs among several factors which offer the household highest possible utility. This paper tried to explore interaction between workplaces and residential locations in terms flows on different workplaces, shortest routes travel costs, frequent modes, vehicle ownerships residents impedance reside desired areas. Two areas have been select...