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While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper examines the relative importance of job search and housing demand along with exploring the extent of equilibrium and disequilibrium in migration and job change.
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While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper discusses the importance of regionally-varying amenities to migration and regional development.
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There was no abstract for this paper, but it explores the role of climate amenities in net migration behavior over the life-cycle, by race. Holding constant climate is seen to greatly improve the performance of traditional economic variables.
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While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper argues that regional differentials in wages and rents are overwhelmingly of an equilibrium nature, with disequilibrium forces having little systematic influence
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Conventional analysis of public goods provision aggregates individual willinness to pay while treating income as exogenous, ignoring the fact that we generate income to allow us to purchase utility-generating goods. We explore the implications of endogenizing the laborl/leisure decision by...
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While there was no abstract for this paper, it provides a theoretical model and empirical results that support an important role for climate in the human location/relocation decision.
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I was unable to copy/paste the abstract, but the paper argues that amenities exert an important effect on wage differentials over space. Indeed, we show that as much has half of the apparent effect of unionization on wages is actually compensation for less desirable climate in locations that are...
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Time-series analysis of effects of pollutants on emergency hospital admissions indicates important synergistic interactions among pollutants and to a lesser degree nonlinearities in effects of single pollutants. Comparisons of alternative econometric specifications are made to determine the...
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While there is no abstract for this paper, it makes an argument that relative risk aversion is decreasing in wealth rather than increasing in wealth as hypothesized by Arrow, using the money demand findings of Friedman.
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Concern about potential free riding in the provision of public goods has a long history. More recently, experimental economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free riding is provided here which demonstrates that...
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