On the Internal Structure of Cities

Lucas, Robert E.; Rossi‐Hansberg, Esteban

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“…(11) states that at all residential locations, the (net-of-commuting-cost) social benefit of locating a household there, ( ) x , equals the social opportunity cost of doing so. In the corresponding market equilibrium, the equation is the household budget constraint, that the household's income net of commuting cost equals its expenditure on residential land and the composite good.…”

Section: The Social Optimum Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…see Lucas [10], Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg [11] and Rossi-Hansberg [18]), an industrial zone is located in the midst of a residential zone and intensities of land use increase with proximity to the joint center of the two zones. Such a layout is the result of a balance between two forces of attraction operating on two land uses: the primary attraction between firms due to scale economies and the attraction between households and industry caused by commuting costs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pollution and land use: Optimum and decentralization

Arnott

Hochman

Rausser

2008

Journal of Urban Economics

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Pollution and land use: Optimum and decentralization

Arnott

Hochman

Rausser

2008

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…Fujita and Ogawa, 1982;White, 1988;Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg, 2002). In essence, however, the general idea that workers trade-off housing prices and commuting costs, and that the level of income determines housing demand and therefore the length of the commute remains in these models.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Do rich households live farther away from their workplaces?

Gutiérrez‐i‐Puigarnau

Mulalic

Ommeren

2014

J Econ Geogr

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may 13-2-2012 AbstractOne of the classic predictions of the urban economic theory is that high-income and low-income households choose different residential locations and therefore, conditional on workplace location, have different commuting patterns. Empirical tests of this theory are not standard, due to reverse causation and lack of good control variables. In the current paper, estimates of household income on commuting distance are derived using residential changes in distance for a given workplace, so reverse causation is eliminated. Our results show that the long-run income elasticity of commuting distance is positive and around 0.18. The results suggest that the elasticities are higher for single wage-earners than for dual wage-earners and higher for females than for males.

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“…One notable exception is Rossi-Hansberg (2004), who considers zoning of land to business and residential use within an open city, when agglomeration externalities are localized as in the Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg (2002) model.…”

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Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls

Vermeulen

2016

J Econ Geogr

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Should constraints on urban expansion be relaxed because of external agglomeration economies? In a system of heterogeneous cities, we demonstrate that second-best land use policy consists of a tax on city creation and a subsidy (tax) on urban development in cities in which the marginal-average productivity gap is above (below) average. However, the implementation of this policy requires coordination at the system level. A tax on city creation does not raise welfare if development taxes are set decentrally by competitive urban developers, nor does correction of these taxes raise welfare if a tax on city creation is unavailable. In the resulting constrained optimal allocation, urban development is subsidized in all cities. The quantitative significance of these findings is explored in an application of our model. JEL classification: R52, R12, R13 Keywords: agglomeration externalities, growth controls, second-best policy, systems of cities Agglomeratie Externaliteiten en Ruimtelijke Ordening Abstract in DutchWat betekent het bestaan van externe agglomeratievoordelen voor ruimtelijke-ordeningsbeleid? We verkennen deze vraag in een gestileerd model voor een systeem van heterogene steden. Als instrumenten die direct op de externaliteit aangrijpen ontbreken, dan kan ruimtelijke ordening op twee manieren behulpzaam zijn. Op de eerste plaats is beleid dat het aantal steden beperkt welvaartsverhogend, omdat de steden die overblijven dan groter worden en de agglomeratievoordelen beter benutten. Omgekeerd leidt beleid dat de opzet van nieuwe steden faciliteert, zoals het (voormalige) groeikernenbeleid, tot een verlies aan agglomeratievoordelen elders in het systeem. Op de tweede plaats kan een combinatie van restricties en subsidies op nieuwbouw in bestaande steden ervoor zorgen dat de steden waar het externe agglomeratie-effect het grootst is, ook de meeste mensen binnen halen.

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On the Internal Structure of Cities

Cited by 511 publications

References 9 publications

Pollution and land use: Optimum and decentralization

Pollution and land use: Optimum and decentralization

Do rich households live farther away from their workplaces?

Agglomeration externalities and urban growth controls

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