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The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
Deryugina, Tatyana; Molitor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on health from other geographic differences in life...
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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Couture, Victor - 2019
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
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How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices
Kotlikoff, Laurence - 1991
Locational choice is one of the fundamental exercises of consumer sovereignty. When regions (or localities within regions) specify different tax rates or supply different amounts of public goods, they distort individuals' location choices. This paper models and measures for the U.S. and New...
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...
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Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010
Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of … methodology for discriminating between the three leading explanations for this suburbanization (workplace attractiveness …
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … stable segregation suggests job suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates …
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Delmas, Magali A. - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
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Power Couples : Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990
Costa, Dora L. - 1999
The rise of the dual career household is a recent phenomenon spurred by the increase in married women's labor force participation rates and educational attainment rates. Compared to traditional households these households must solve a colocation problem. This paper documents trends in locational...
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Neighborhoods Matter : Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects
Chyn, Eric; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs...
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