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The Tiebout Hypothesis in the United States: An Analysis of Black Consumer-Voters, 1970-75

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  • Cebula, Richard
  • Avery, Leslie

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This study provides a preliminary empirical investigation as to whether black-consumer voters were attracted by the prospect of higher AFDC benefits as they made interstate migration decisions over the 1970-75 time period. Unlike most previous studies, there was no compelling evidence of such a attraction. Of course, this study is only preliminary, and one could easily make an argument that there are omitted variables from the estimating equations.

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  • Cebula, Richard & Avery, Leslie, 1982. "The Tiebout Hypothesis in the United States: An Analysis of Black Consumer-Voters, 1970-75," MPRA Paper 51648, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    collective decision making; welfare magnet; black migration;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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