The impact of residential environment reputation on residential environment choices

Using a Danish household survey data from 2011, this paper investigates whether the choice of living in rural or urban residential environments is linked to the perceived reputation of such environments. Results from multiple ordered logit regressions show that the perceived status attached to livin...

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Published in:Journal of housing and the built environment 2015-09, Vol.30 (3), p.403-425
Main Author: Soerensen, Jens FL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Denmark
Environmental impact
Geography
Households
Housing
Human Geography
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Media coverage
Migration
Neighborhood blight
Neighborhoods
Perception
Perceptions
Population decline
Probability
Regression analysis
Reputations
Residential
Residential areas
Rural
Rural areas
Social Sciences
Studies
Survey data
Terminology
Urban areas
Urban environments
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Summary:Using a Danish household survey data from 2011, this paper investigates whether the choice of living in rural or urban residential environments is linked to the perceived reputation of such environments. Results from multiple ordered logit regressions show that the perceived status attached to living in different residential environments is strongly associated with current residential environment. For example, the probability of living in a large city was found to increase by 0.7 % along a 19-scale variable measuring the perceived degree of status attached to living in urban versus rural residential areas. Among other findings, the results suggest that causality mostly flows from status perceptions to residential environment choices.
ISSN:1566-4910
1573-7772
DOI:10.1007/s10901-014-9419-0