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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012
Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...
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The Economics of Place-Making Policies
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2021
Should the national government undertake policies aimed at strengthening the economies of particular localities or regions? Agglomeration economies and human capital spillovers suggest that such policies could enhance welfare. However, the mere existence of agglomeration externalities does not...
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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Busso, Matias - 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Desmet, Klaus - 2010
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...
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School Desegregation and Urban Change : Evidence from City Boundaries
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010
I examine changes in the city-suburban housing price gap in metropolitan areas with and without court …-ordered desegregation plans over the 1970s, narrowing my comparison to housing units on opposite sides of district boundaries. The … desegregation of public schools in central cities reduced the demand for urban residence, leading urban housing prices and rents to …
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Distance and Political Boundaries : Estimating Border Effects Under Inequality Constraints
Borraz, Fernando - 2012
The "border effect" literature finds that political borders have a very large impact on relative prices, implicitly adding several thousands of miles to trade. In this paper we show that the standard empirical specification suffers from selection bias, and propose a new methodology based on...
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Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities Across Canadian Cities
Albouy, David - 2012
various cities, which differ in their wage levels, housing costs, and land values. Using 2006 Canadian Census data, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106079
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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China
Chen, Yuyu - 2013
Protecting the environment during economic growth is a challenge facing every country. This paper focuses on two regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to...
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Happiness on Tap : Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
Devoto, Florencia - 2014
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city's water grid, a random subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase...
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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069688