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Title: Land Use Regulation and Individual Welfare

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: We provide some of the most disaggregated estimates of the welfare effects of land use regulation. To do so, we link individuals between the 1920 and 1940 censuses in order to analyze how households responded to the introduction of Chicago’s comprehensive zoning ordinance. Drawing on pre-zoning demographic and land use microdata, we construct a plausibly exogenous household-level measure of zoning mismatch. We find that zoning played a meaningful role in shaping the demographic composition of the neighborhood, with the largest effects appearing in black neighborhoods. Movers (native, black, and foreign) were able to completely offset the changes brought about by zoning. While commercial and manufacturing zoning lowered overall neighborhood quality for blacks, blacks that stayed behind benefited from increased job access.

Url: https://tatwinam.people.wm.edu/BT_Chicago_Tiebout.pdf

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Authors: Beach, Brian; Twinam, Tate

Publisher: College of William & Mary

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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization

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