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Title: The Private and Social Costs of Urban Sprawl: The Lot Size Versus Commuting Tradeoff

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: Urban sprawl has both costs and benefits. One cost of sprawl is that commute times are increasedsince homes and places of work are more dispersed. A benefit is that sprawl allows consumers topurchase larger homes and lots. This paper uses a new data set on housing transactions in Los AngelesCounty to compare some costs (increased commuting) and benefits (larger homes) of sprawl. We usenew methods in demand estimation to recover how heterogeneous home buyers tradeoff commutingversus larger homes at the margin. Finally, we evaluate the partial equilibrium welfare effects of twoanti-sprawl policies.

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Authors: Kahn, Matthew E.; Bajari, Patrick

Publisher: AREUEA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

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