Moving to Nice Weather

Rappaport, Jordan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.443068

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“…Many of the northern industrial cities have lost population over time, while cities in the Sun Belt have grown. Rappaport (2007) argues that, as US incomes have risen, an income effect on the demand for good weather has been an important driver of this adjustment. 30 These ideas are supported by studies which consider factor incomes.…”

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

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Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

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Section: Physical Geographymentioning

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

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Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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“…We use the share of land that falls into the definition of 'plains' as a (negative) proxy of these costs. We use an MSA's access to a major coast and its mild winter temperatures as the natural amenities people care about (Rosen 1979, Roback 1982, Glaeser et al 2001, Rappaport 2007. Individuals are obviously heterogeneous in their liking of such amenities.…”

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On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas

Hilber

Robert‐Nicoud

2013

Journal of Urban Economics

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We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group (via increasing property prices) but hurt the latter (via increasing development costs). More desirable locations are more developed and, as a consequence of political economy forces, more regulated. Using an IV approach that directly follows from our model we find strong and robust support for our predictions. The data provide weak or no support for alternative hypotheses whereby regulations reflect the wishes of the majority of households or efficiency motives.

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“…Findings with respect to amenities are clear. Area measures of population and migration as well as household location decisions are significantly related to climate (Mueser and Graves 1995, Clark and Murphy 1996, Hunt and Mueller 2004, Cheshire and Magrini 2006, Rappaport 2007, Poston et al 2009, Eichman et al 2010), air quality (Seig et al 2004, Bayer et al 2008, recreational opportunities (Duffy-Deno 1998, Lewis et al 2002), cultural amenities (Clark and Hunter 1992), and crime rates (Gottlieb and Joseph 2006). Housing prices and wages are endogenous to area-level migration (Mueser and Graves 1995), and so these variables are typically excluded from analyses with aggregate data.…”

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Housing prices and inter-urban migration

Plantinga

Détang-Dessendre

Hunt

et al. 2013

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Understanding the causes and consequences of human migration has long been of interest to urban and regional economists. Empirical studies build on the theoretical results of Roback (1982) and Mueser and Graves (1995) by estimating the effects of wages, housing prices, and amenities on inter-area migration. Findings with respect to amenities are clear (e.g., Rappaport 2007), and household-level studies consistently find that relative wages or incomes increase the probability that a household will select a given location (e.g., Berger and Blomquist 1992). In contrast, the results for housing prices are inconclusive. Studies that include area-level measures (e.g., median housing price for a metropolitan area) find a mix of negative, positive, and insignificant effects on inter-area migration decisions (e.g., Hunt and Mueller 2004). Many migration studies exclude housing price measures. Terms of use: Documents inThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of housing prices in influencing inter-urban household migration decisions. An important contribution of the study is the development of a new method for representing housing prices in migration analyses. Following the approach commonly used to model wages in studies of household migration, we identify the form of the utility function for which individual-specific housing prices can be predicted for unselected areas as a function of individual characteristics. Our theoretical results guide the development of an empirical measure of housing costs that accounts for the decision to own or rent and the cost of holding housing capital.We test our housing cost measure using the 2000 PUMS to identify point-to-point migration decisions for a large sample of college-educated males residing in 291 U.S. metropolitan areas. We estimate conditional logit models of metropolitan area choice, controlling for wages, a large range of amenities, and expected housing costs. Our key finding is that our proposed housing cost measure yields the expected results (higher housing prices reduce the probability that an area is selected), which is robust to alternative specifications and samples. We re-estimate our model using three alternative metropolitan area measures of housing costs: median house price, average apartment rent, and average urban land rent. We find that these measures consistently yield counterintuitive results. 3 Housing Prices and Inter-urban Migration

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Moving to Nice Weather

Cited by 88 publications

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas

Housing prices and inter-urban migration

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