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Household/individual & area-level data from the 1980-1985 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 3,895 male heads-of-household, ages 55+) were used to estimate 4 models in which the contextual variables of climate, crime, & cost of living & health services interacted with the individual variables of age, income, home ownership, & health to predict elderly migration. While the individual-level variables were stronger than either the contextual variables or the micro-macro interaction, these latter did improve the model's explanatory power. Elderly migrant flows from a wide range of origin areas into a smaller number of areas with lower cost of living & lower crime were noted. In Multilevel Determinants of Elderly Migration: Methodological Reservations, Gary M. Fournier (Florida State U, Tallahassee) notes some shortcomings of this analysis: the lack of (1) a logical structure of the econometric model, & (2) a cross-sectional logit analysis to demonstrate the relative effects of time variation vs individual characteristics. 1 Table, 19 References. Adapted from the source document.

It is hypothesized that lower costs of living in some states attract elderly households on fixed incomes in much the same way that higher wages attract members of the LF. A method for estimating state cost-of-living indexes is presented, & several models designed to explain state-to-state flows of older migrants are tested for 1975-1980, using data from the 1980 Public Use Microdata Sample. The importance of cost-of-living variations is strongly confirmed. 3 Tables, 31 References. Modified HA