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East Side Story : Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting

Heblich, Stephan - 2016

model to recreate the spatial distribution of pollution. First, individual-level census data show that pollution induced … neighborhood sorting during the course of the nineteenth century. Historical pollution patterns explain up to 15% of within city … deprivation in 1881. Second, these equilibria persist to this day even though the pollution that initially caused them has waned …

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Tax Competition and Income Sorting : Evidence from the Zurich Metropolitan Area

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Somogyi, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2009

In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...

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Much Ado About Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform

Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2021

ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we contribute to this debate by analyzing ethnic segregation before … and after the reform. We discuss drawbacks of commonly used segregation indices and their interpretation as well as … causality issues. Although there is an increase in segregation over the time period studied, our results show that segregation …

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Relocation of the Rich : Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes From Spanish Reforms

Agrawal, David R. - 2018

A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....

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Delivering Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Quality : A Comparison of Place- and Tenant-Based Programs

Eerola, Essi - 2017

private rental housing. This suggests that place-based programs may lead to more segregation than tenant-based alternatives …

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House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices

Stroebel, Johannes - 2015

We use detailed micro data to document a causal response of local retail price to changes in house prices, with elasticities of 15%-20% across housing booms and busts. Notably, these price responses are largest in zip codes with many homeowners, and non-existent in zip codes with mostly renters....

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen N. - 2014

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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Residential Mobility of the European Elderly

Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2021

With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...

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Sprawl and Blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2021

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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The Political Economy of Regional Integration Projects at Borders Where Rich and Poor Meet : The Role of Cross-Border Shopping and Community Sorting

Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - 2021

At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...

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