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Effects Of Urban Growth Controls On Intercity Commuting, Laudo M. Ogura Sep 2010

Effects Of Urban Growth Controls On Intercity Commuting, Laudo M. Ogura

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This paper presents an empirical study of the effects of urban growth controls on the intercity commuting of workers. Growth controls (land use regulations that attempt to restrict population growth and urban sprawl) have increased housing prices and diverted population growth to uncontrolled cities. It has been suggested that resulting changes in local labour supply might stimulate intercity commuting from uncontrolled to controlled cities. To test this hypothesis, a gravity model of commuting flows between places in California is estimated using alternative econometric methods (OLS, Heckman selection and count-data). The possibility of spatial dependence in commuting flows is also taken …


Economic Growth, Quality Of Life, And Development Policy: A Case Study Of South Korea, Doh C. Shin, Wayne Snyder Jul 1983

Economic Growth, Quality Of Life, And Development Policy: A Case Study Of South Korea, Doh C. Shin, Wayne Snyder

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