A Comparison of Traditional and Discrete-Choice Approaches to the Analysis of Residential Mobility and Locational Attainment

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 660, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 240-260

  Quillian, Lincoln ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conditional logit; discrete choice; locational attainment; migration; neighborhood poverty; residential mobility; segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930977204     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215577770     Document Type: Article

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