Most of the existing literature on residential location choice is cross-sectional and assumes no history effect in people’s residential location preferences. However, human beings are constantly adjusting themselves to the local environment and thus it seems reasonable to assume that...

We propose a decomposition of residential self-selection by understanding the process of its formation. We take a life-course perspective and postulate that locations experienced early in life can have a lasting effect on our locational preferences later in life. In other words, what was...