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Title: Mobility and Environmental Equity: Do Housing Choices Determine Exposure to Air Pollution?

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: U.S. Census data show that approximately 40 million Americans move each year,raising questions about the role of mobility in determining observed environmentalrisk exposure patterns. The literature in this area continues to be contested, and therelationship between household sorting and exposure is still not well understood. Weoffer a new assessment of this question with respect to the criteria air pollutants(focusing on ozone and particulate matter) using a unique data set that combinesinformation from repeat real estate transactions by the same San Francisco Bay areahomebuyers. Our hedonic results suggest a trade-off does exist between housingservices and pollution (i.e., households can get more housing services for the sameprice by moving to a neighborhood with more pollution). Our results showpoor/minority households are more likely to make this trade-off and that wealth takenfrom appreciating housing stocks increases their ability to avoid the conventionalsorting induced-exposure story.Keywords: Mobility, air pollution, household sorting, environmental justice

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Authors: Deoro, Brooks; Timmins, Christopher

Publisher: North Carolina State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

Countries: United States