Living costs, the Tiebout hypothesis, and welfare policy

Cebula, Richard J.

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“…Research on the Tiebout hypothesis has been a well‐established topic, ever since the publication of its seminal paper (Tiebout, ). Some papers focus on distinct income tax rates (Cebula, ; Carlson and Cebula, ; Lee and Zhee, ; Rhode and Strumpf, ), while others focus on health access (Cebula and Clark, ), demographic changes (Kim and Hewings, ) and minority migration (Cebula and Belton, ). More closely related to the present research is the research of Renas (), which focuses on the cost of living and labour market opportunities.…”

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“…According to this hypothesis, public goods are localized, which signifies that the consumption of public goods and locations are bundled together, and that residents move between distinct locations attracted by the best public goods on offer. This hypothesis has been tested in the USA (Cebula and Clark, ; Cebula, ) and Canada (Rubio, ), but not in Africa. This paper tests the Tiebout hypothesis in Angola at a regional level, using spatial models.…”

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The Tiebout Hypothesis in Africa: Evidence from Angola

Barros¹,

Serafim²

2016

African Development Review

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This paper analyses the Tiebout hypothesis in Angola's provinces from 2004 to 2013, using a spatial panel data model. The Tiebout hypothesis, which states that a country's internal migration is dictated by regional public policy, is tested. Angola's internal inter-provincial migration is related to gross domestic product per capita, local public expenditure, unemployment, poverty, population density, the number of public employees in the region, and a NGO for civic education. The results reveal that spatial autocorrelation is a reality in the Angolan context, validating the adoption of a spatial model, and that regional migration is explained by the covariates. The general conclusion is that the Tiebout hypothesis is accepted in the Angolan regions, and that the most important cause of migration is regional poverty. Policy implications are derived and it is concluded that an efficient anti-poverty policy is needed in the Angolan context at regional level in order to decrease internal migration.

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The Tiebout Hypothesis in Africa: Evidence from Angola

Barros¹,

Serafim²

2016

African Development Review

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“…However, some argue that it is undesirable to account for geographical cost-of-living differences in measures of economic wellbeing and programme eligibility. (See Cebula, 1979a and1979b for a survey of the literature regarding the relationship between welfare benefit levels, interstate migration and adjusting policies for geographical costof-living differences.) Proponents of this position argue that differences in living costs reflect the different packages of amenities/ disamenities that are available in different areas because amenity packages are capitalised into land and housing costs.…”

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Economic Wellbeing and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographical Cost-of-living Differences in the US

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Summary. Regional cost-of-living differences affect the quality of life that individuals and families experience in different metropolitan areas. Yet, lack of metropolitan cost-of-living indexes has left analysts without the ability to make accurate cost-of-living adjustments to measures of economic wellbeing. This paper evaluates alternative approaches to cost-of-living measurement and then applies the ACCRA cost-of-living index to various US metropolitan area datasets, including median household income, the number of people living in poverty, and family eligibility for the Free and Reduced Price School Lunch and Head Start programmes to illustrate some of the policy impacts of adjusting economic indicators of wellbeing for geographical cost-of-living differentials.

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Demographic factors affecting constitutional decisions: the case of municipal charters

Maser

1985

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Living costs, the Tiebout hypothesis, and welfare policy

Cited by 5 publications

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The Tiebout Hypothesis in Africa: Evidence from Angola

The Tiebout Hypothesis in Africa: Evidence from Angola

Economic Wellbeing and Where We Live: Accounting for Geographical Cost-of-living Differences in the US

Demographic factors affecting constitutional decisions: the case of municipal charters

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