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Voting with Their Feet: Do People Choose Residential Destinations Based on Naturally Occurring Advantages or Man-Made Advantages of Locations? Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Life Cycle Research; Mobility; Mobility, Residential; Residence; Taxes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the relative natural advantage of some locations in terms of its climate and geographical features, among other things. In this three-paper dissertation, I explore how natural amenities affect the variations in local government public goods and how people choose their residential locations as they trade-off between natural amenities and local government public goods as they go through phases in their life cycle...In Article 3, I use fixed effects panel data regression to test whether age and life milestones shape preferences and budget constraints of people when they choose residential locations as they trade-off between natural amenities and local government-provided public goods. My results indicate that some natural amenities are complements to local public goods while others are substitutes. Some expenditures are not affected by natural amenities because they have to be provided regardless of what are naturally available. Moreover, age and marital status are consistent predictors of moving. Natural amenities and certain per capita tax revenue and expenditure items also affect the likelihood of moving. |
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Canales, Kristine Laura S. Voting with Their Feet: Do People Choose Residential Destinations Based on Naturally Occurring Advantages or Man-Made Advantages of Locations? Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2020. |