Segregation and Tiebout Sorting : Investigating the Link between Investments in Public Goods and Neighborhood Tipping
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* Support for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation, NSF SES-03-21566. Additional support for Banzhaf was provided by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). We thank participants in a 2008 ASSA Session, the 2009 NBER Summer Institute, and in seminars at Arizona State, Brown, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, PERC, Resources for the Future, the University of British Columbia, the University of Georgia, the University of Wyoming, and Yale for comments on earlier versions of this paper. We especially thank Patrick Bayer, Antonio Bento, Don Fullerton, and Kerry Smith for their extensive comments.
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