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Title: Residential Mobility and Ozone Exposure: Challenges for Environmental Justice Policy

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: U.S. Census data show that approximately 40 million Americans move each year,raising questions about the role of residential mobility in determining observedpollution exposure patterns. The literature in this area continues to be contested, therelationship between household sorting and exposure is still not well understood,and some aspects of these decisions remain unexplored. We offer new assessmentsof residential mobility explanations with respect to ozone pollution using a uniquedata set that combines information from repeat real estate transactions by the sameSan Francisco Bay Area home buyers. We find that poor/minority households(blacks/Hispanics in particular) who buy more housing services do take on moreozone pollution. Observed housing choices suggest that this may be a result of therates at which ozone and housing services are traded in the market being differentfor poor minorities and white homeowners.

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Authors: Depro, Brooks; Timmins, Christopher

Publisher: Duke University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States