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Tiebout Sorting and Environmental Injustice

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  • Dakshina De Silva
  • Anita Schiller
  • Aurelie Slechten
  • Leonard Wolk

Abstract

Various mechanisms could give rise to the correlations between income, race, and pollution documented by the environmental justice literature. Using a detailed county-to-county migration dataset and pollution data from the Toxic Release Inventory, we propose an approach to identify residential sorting by income as a possible source of these correlations. We find that differences in environmental quality between home and destination counties matter for households' migration decisions. We also show that households moving to "cleaner" counties are "richer" than households staying back. We interpret those results as evidence of residential sorting in the spirit of Tiebout (1956).

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  • Dakshina De Silva & Anita Schiller & Aurelie Slechten & Leonard Wolk, 2020. "Tiebout Sorting and Environmental Injustice," Working Papers 312181976, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:312181976
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    Keywords

    Environmental Justice; Migration; Residential Mobility; TRI;
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    JEL classification:

    • D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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