ABSTRACT
Moving home is a major event in people’s lives, the result of an often drawnout and diffi cult decision which has effects that are not easily predicted. These include direct economic impacts (perhaps from a change in job if that triggered the move, but also the costs of the move and of the new home itself) and indirect welfare effects associated with, for example, attempts to establish new or maintain old social networks. When two people jointly consider a decision to move, these issues are inevitably more complex. In this chapter, we study the extent to which relationships matter both in determining residential mobility behaviour and the impact of residential mobility on psychological health.
