Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis Revisited

Richard Cebula ()

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Abstract: This empirical study investigates the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis as it might have applied to net domestic state in-migration rates over the period 1990 through 1999. It appears that the net state in-migration rate has been directly related to the ratio of the total state plus local government outlays per capita on public education in a state to that state's total state plus local govern­ment tax burden per capita. Other variables included in the study, including the previous-period median single-family housing price inflation rate, a mea­sure of previous-period growth in real income per capita, and quality-of-life variables reflecting violent crime rates and sunnier climates, also seem to be significant determinants of the net state in-migration rate. Thus, for the study period, it appears that the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis played a significant role in determining internal migration patterns.

Keywords: migration; state plus local taxation; public education spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 H42 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-23
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Published in The Review of Regional Studies 1.32(2002): pp. 87-96

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