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...

This paper develops a model of migration integrating equilibrium and disequilibrium components in which individuals and firms from rational expectations about future opportunities. Levels of migration are derived as functions of variations in factors influencing migrant labor demand ("economic...

Rents are shown here to be more appropriately interpreted as a composite amenity, a "benefit of living" rather than a "cost of living." This is seen in a model in which migrants with rising average incomes move to higher rent locations other things equal, rather than the lower rent locations...

This paper contrasts two dominant views of migration. One involves movements to arbitrage disequilibrium in labor markets, while the other takes a more urban economic view of equilibrium in which on-going migration is seen as a response to changing demands for non-traded amenities as incomes...

A robust finding in economics is that decision-makers often exhibit a much smaller dollar willingness to pay (WTP) for an item than the minimum amount that they claim to be willing to accept (WTA) to part with it. The spread between these two numbers is particularly large for public goods,...

This is Chapter 10 of Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach and it provides an overview of the environmental valuations commonly used in environmental economics prior to detailed treatments in later chapters

This is the Preface to Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach, and it provides a description of the approach taken throughout the book. The approach is to first understand how environmental policy would be conducted in a world of "perfect information," then move on to sources of...

Why do people live, work, and play where they do? How much, why, and between what points do people migrate, temporarily and permanently? These are relatively simple questions, but the answers are much less clear and do not fall neatly into one field of knowledge. Because choices are involved,...

Elected representatives have little incentive to pursue the interests of those electing them once they are elected. This well-known principal agent problem leads, in a variety of theories of government, to nonoptimally large levels of government expenditure. An implication is that budgetary...