Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 38 (2008) 5, pp. 487-497
This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus changes in residential land per household. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.7% while population...
