Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
of changing demographics versus changes in residential land per household. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of … residential land in the United States grew 47.7% while population only grew 17.8%. At first glance, this suggest an important role … for per-household increases. However, the calculations in this paper show that only 24.5% of the growth in residential …