CALIBRATING A MODEL OF THE DECISION TO MOVE

A previously published paper established that neither the cumulative-inertia hypothesis nor the independent-trials models were adequate explanations of observed mobility rates for individuals with different prior residential histories. An alternative model of the probability of moving incorporated the independent-trials model and cumulative inertia as special cases. This model is restated, calibrated, and tested with a sample of household-mobility data from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tests of the deterministic and stochastic versions of the model indicate that both versions adequately reproduce the residential-history trees. -Authors