Tiebout Sorting and Toxic Releases

Dakshina G. Silva (), Anita Schiller, Aurélie Slechten () and Leonard Wolk ()
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Dakshina G. Silva: Lancaster University
Aurélie Slechten: Lancaster University
Leonard Wolk: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2024, vol. 87, issue 9, No 10, 2487-2520

Abstract: Abstract Combining detailed county-to-county migration data with Toxics Release Inventory data, and fine-scale $$\hbox{PM}_{2.5}$$ PM 2.5 concentration levels, we investigate the relationship between internal migration, income of migrant and non-migrant households and county-level differences in environmental quality. We show that households moving to “cleaner” counties are relatively “richer”—a result consistent with a sorting by income in the spirit of Tiebout (1956). An implication of this finding is that internal migration could contribute to the persistence of disparities in pollution exposure at the county-level.

Keywords: Migration; Toxics Release Inventory; Air quality; Income sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 Q53 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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