Wang, Hao2015-10-152020-08-172015-08-17bibid: 9333143https://hdl.handle.net/1813/41094The relocation decisions by individual households collectively shape urban areas; hence we use the American Household Survey to empirically study these mobility decisions. We focus on both the decision to move as well as home location selection. We reconfirm the importance of several socio-demographic and macro-economic variables in these decisions as well as identify several other important variables that are relevant to these decision processes.en-USAmerican housing surveyResidential Mobilitymnldissertation or thesis