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Sprawl and blight
Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009
The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...
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Relocation of the rich : migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018
in tax revenue from the out-ow of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845286
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Urban shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, … - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
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Compactness vs. sprawl revisited : converging views
Ewing, Reid; Richardson, Harry Ward; Bartholomew, Keith; … - 2014
This paper examines the relative merits of compact cities or urban sprawl (suburban settlement patterns) as a spatial solution to environmental problems (such as climate control), automobile dependence, economic development, infrastructure costs and the quality of urban life.
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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018
Many countries operate pronounced fiscal equalization schemes that shift tax revenue across jurisdictions. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844560
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The long-run effects of neighborhood change on incumbent families
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Hartley, Daniel; Lee, Kwan Ok - 2019
A number of prominent studies examine the long-run effects of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging … variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. How-ever, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than … neighborhood attributes on long-run outcomes for incumbent children and households. For identification, we make use of quasi …
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Family, community and life-cycle earnings : evidence from siblings and youth peers
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2017
Using longitudinal data based on administrative registers for the population of Danish men we develop a model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and...
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Free neighborhood choice boosts socially optimal outcomes in stag-hunt coordination problem
Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021
outcome will prevail. We performed an experiment with human subjects exploring how free neighborhood choice affects … treatment with neighborhood choice, the outcome is dramatically different: behavior quickly converges to the socially desirable … outcome leading to welfare gains 2.5 times higher than in the environment without neighborhood choice. Participants playing …
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Do remote workers deter neighborhood crime? : evidence from the rise of working from home
Matheson, Jesse; McConnell, Brendon; Rockey, James; … - 2024
of the rise of working from home (WFH) on neighborhood-level burglary rates, exploiting geographically granular crime … data and a neighborhood WFH measure. We document three key findings. First, a one standard deviation increase in … neighborhood WFH (9.5pp) leads to a persistent 4% drop in burglaries. This effect is large, explaining more than half of the 30 …
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