Household Location and Tiebout: Do Families Sort According to Preferences for Locational Amenities?

William H. Hoyt; Stuart S. Rosenthal

doi:10.1006/juec.1996.2019

Household Location and Tiebout: Do Families Sort According to Preferences for Locational Amenities?

William H. Hoyt, Stuart S. Rosenthal

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If households sort efficiently across locations, then at a given location families receive the same marginal benefit from the locational amenities. We test for such sorting by imposing cross-equation restrictions on hedonic regressions that difference away location- versus house-specific effects. Estimates are obtained using a unique subset of the American Housing Survey in which adjacent housing units are grouped together and observed in both 1985 and 1989. Rejection of the cross-equation restrictions unambiguously implies an inefficient sorting of households. In contrast, the data support the cross-equation restrictions which is a necessary but not sufficient condition for efficient sorting.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	159-178
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Urban Economics
Volume	42
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/juec.1996.2019
State	Published - Sep 1997

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US. S. Rosenthal gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia and the Social Science and Research Council of Canada SSHRC). We thank two anonymous referees, Jan Brueckner, Charles de BartolomÂe, Dennis Epple, Bob Helsley, Vernon Henderson, and William Strange for helpful comments. Any remaining errors, of course, are our own.

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