Showing papers in "Journal of Urban Economics in 1979"

TL;DR: In this article, a consumption theory of migration is developed which supplements the traditional job search models, seen as an equilibrating reaction to an initially non-optimal location, is analyzed using standard demand theory.

TL;DR: This paper explored the role of climate amenities in net migration behavior over the life-cycle, by race, and found that holding constant climate is seen to greatly improve the performance of traditional economic variables.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial theory of optimal city size is developed which builds on recent work in residential location theory, which specifies a relationship between economic aggregates in the city and the minimum government intervention necessary to lead an otherwise competitive economy to the optimum.

TL;DR: The authors explores linkages between exit, voting, and the land market that are central to the study of local politics and raises new questions about the desirability of Tiebout-type governmental structures.

TL;DR: This paper developed an explicit model of this process and provided estimates of alternative stock adjustment models for two samples of renter households, and the results strongly indicate that there are significant lags in adjustment, even for low income households.

TL;DR: In this article, a general accessibility measure consisting of a double power series in cartesian coordinates is developed and shown to represent a general formulation of traditional accessibility measures, which is incorporated in a hedonic price regression model, and the model is estimated using census tract data for the city of Milwaukee.

TL;DR: In this paper, the functional form of the relationship between land values and distance from the city center is analyzed using historical data for Chicago, and the Box and Cox transformation technique is employed to examine the land value function.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical model of the urban land market is solved to examine the impact of bimodal passenger transportation on equilibrium residential land use, and it is shown that various basic urban forms can result depending on the relative generalized cost characteristics of the competing dense and sparse radial networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a more realistic and complex housing market theory is proposed, which indicates that housing prices are substantially higher in the ghetto and transition areas than in white areas, and that within the same area blacks must pay more than whites for equivalent housing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the spatial patterns of land values in the city of Chicago in 1960 and 1970 and found that the relationship between the natural logarithm of land value and distance to the central business district (CBD) can best be described by a polynomial of the fourth degree.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalized location theory of the firm in linear space is presented, where location outcomes are examined by utilizing a general as well as a particular transport rate structure for output and inputs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between the benefits and costs of local public good provision and local property values within the context of the Koopmans-Beckmann-Gale location-assignment model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a regression technique for developing residential real estate price indexes using repeat sales on properties has not allowed the separation of depreciation from true price changes, and a corrected model is then used to show the stringent assumptions that are necessary to interpret his empirical results as measuring embodied technological change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an empirical test of the Tiebout Hypothesis that locally provided public services and the level of local taxes influences residential choice decisions of households, and show that at any point of time significant fiscal disequilibrium exists for residents of some communities, resulting in a reduction of the efficiency properties of the tiebout mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium transportation demand model was presented and analyzed for hypothetical cities with populations of 1 and 2 million, and data and coefficients for those cities were obtained from existing metropolitan areas of equivalent sizes.

TL;DR: This paper developed a model of production outside the CBD in a monocentric city, where consumers make costless circumferential shopping trips to retail producers, and retail workers commute circumferentially to work at zero cost.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used engineering approaches to correct for bias in a subsample of 59 observations of high-rise office buildings and found that the engineering estimates support a unitary substitution elasticity.

TL;DR: In this article, a variable elasticity of substitution production function is proposed and some preliminary empirical evidence is provided using data for single-family housing, where the authors explore a new functional form for the housing production function.

TL;DR: Buchanan and Tullock as mentioned in this paper argue that it is impossible to decentralize pollution externalities without direct intervention to control market trends, and that this intervention should be effected by Pigouvian pollution t,axes rather t,han by regulatory standards.

TL;DR: In this article, a reexamination of Coleman et al.'s study of white enrollment losses from desegregating urban school districts over the period 1968-1973 is presented, and new equations are estimated using a different measure of desegregation, additional explanatory variables, and modified samples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method for obtaining quantitative measures of the value of a community environment in terms of the change in income which would equalize utility across locations, applied in a longitudinal study of factory workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived the net depreciation of a house exclusive of maintenance in the context of an intertemporal model and presented estimates for aggregation in depreciation and other restrictions.

TL;DR: In this article, regression models were formulated to explain health-care visits to a group practice medical care plan, and the authors found only a small effect of air pollution levels on the health care visits to the group practice, while other variables such as meteorological conditions, as well as other variables thought to influence the consumption of medical services, were included in the models as explanatory variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an empirical test of the hypothesis that large cities concentrate on innovative commodities and allow the production of more standardized goods to filter down to lower wage smaller cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how the characteristics of demand for space help determine the response of aggregate automobile mileage to increased gasoline prices in a typical monocentric model in which household heads commute to work at the center of city.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated normative land-use policies when the urban land market is characterized by interdependencies that are not corrected for by voluntary private transactions, and argued on the basis of economic efficiency that the appropriate corrective policy depends on the sensitivity of inter-dependencies' intensity to changes in the proximity of producing and receiving land uses.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of an urban area producing one good for export is presented and solved to yield the employment density function, which is sensitive to the elasticity of substitution and can diverge markedly from the usually assumed negative exponential form.