December 15, 2014
Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity
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.
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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.
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Authors
Ioulia Ossokina
Coen Teulings
Henri de Groot