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Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality...
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In a circular neighbourhood, each subject has a left and a right neighbour with whom they interact repeatedly in two … structurally independent public goods games. We compare an exogenous treatment in which subjects’ positions in the neighbourhood …-cooperative neighbourhood acts as a powerful deterrent of free riding. When endogenous relocation is possible, contributions are larger and do …
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service complaint program and elementary school evaluations. Results offer robust support for the author’s theory that …
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This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...
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The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
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The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...
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