Family Change and Residential Choice in Mexican Cities

This research tries to examine the nature of two sets of changes, demographic and spatial, and searches for linkages between them, and the potential economic explanation behind. All of this will be related to the largest metropolitan areas of Mexico, and its comparison with the changes in the national context. First, it outlines the main features of the changing in population and demographic regime in Mexico and in the main cities, especially the first demographic transition, or the transit for high to low rates of mortality and fertility, and the so-called second demographic transition, or a more elderly population, and with a larger variety of household types. Secondly, it attempts to identify how recent demographic developments relate with two changes at intra-urban level: i) household types, or household segregation, and ii) residential choice, or the demand for housing. Thirdly, the family economic approach will be use for offering potential explanations to these demographic and spatial changes in the largest cities of Mexico.