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associated with externalities and the applicability of the Coase theorem. Our story begins in July of 1988, when Larry Ellison …
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This empirical study investigates the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis as it might have applied to net domestic state in-migration … rates over the period 1990 through 1999. It appears that the net state in-migration rate has been directly related to the …-of-life variables reflecting violent crime rates and sunnier climates, also seem to be significant determinants of the net state in-migration …
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This brief Note has found that the location decisions of the American Indian are influenced by geographic AFDC differentials. In particular, the American Indian population is apparently strongly attracted to high welfare areas. This finding may be interpreted as yet further support for the...
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This study investigates the impact of certain state and local government policies on 1960-70 migration according to …
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For the period 2008-2009 of the “Great Recession,” the gross state-level in-migration rate was an increasing function … period, the gross in-migration rate was a decreasing function of the cost of living, the poverty rate, the average state …
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This study empirically investigates determinants of enlistment in the U.S. Army over the period 1974 through 2008. The emphasis is on the impacts of both the availability of free medical care and the challenges of addressing higher medical care inflation. The study estimates reveal that the...
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This empirical note finds that nonwhite migration is positively and significantly affected by welfare levels and that … welfare levels in turn are positively and significantly affected by nonwhite migration. Thus, this two stage least squares … analysis of 1960-1970 net interstate migration lends support to the hypothesis that while nonwhite families are attracted for …
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This reply extends our previous study on migration by estimating a system of simultaneous equations by two stage least … by ordinary least squares, that in-migration is positively impacted by both the prospects of a higher level of income and …
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