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Title: Essays on Housing and Locational Choices
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Pan, Siyu |
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Essays on Housing and Locational Choices Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Georgia State University Keyword(s): Asthma; Environment, Pollution/Urban Density; Geocoded Data; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Migration; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Chapter 1 provides an important implication for epidemiology, as it implies a naive estimation of the adverse effect of air pollution on health will be biased, as people sort based on air quality differences. This paper provides direct evidence that air-pollution-related health shocks change how a household evaluates clean air and, as a result, incentivize relocation towards better air quality. I employ a spatial equilibrium model, in which a household chooses a county to live in based on the county-level characteristics including air pollution. Using NLSY79 data, I create a panel tracking respondents' respiratory health shocks and county-level location for over three decades. The estimates from a multinomial mixed logit model support the hypothesis that households move toward cleaner air after a female adult is diagnosed with asthma or becomes pregnant. I find that households react more strongly to a new asthma diagnosis for an adult than to a child's diagnosis. |
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Pan, Siyu. Essays on Housing and Locational Choices. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, 2020. |