Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102233 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4939
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure, commuting behavior, wages, land use and land rents for 3000 ZIP-codes in the Netherlands and for three levels of education. Welfare benefits are shown to differ sharply by workers' educational attainment.
Subjects: 
local public goods
agglomeration
spatial equilibrium
residential sorting
land rents
JEL: 
H40
H54
R13
R23
R40
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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