Residential Mobility and Ozone Exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area

environmental justice;discrete-time survival analysis;ozone;hedonics;housing markets;Residential Mobility

Depro, Brooks M. ; Mitch Renkow, Committee Member,Daniel J. Phaneuf, Committee Member,Christopher Timmins, Committee Member,Raymond B. Palmquist, Committee Chair,Depro, Brooks M. ; Mitch Renkow ; Committee Member ; Daniel J. Phaneuf ; Committee Member ; Christopher Timmins ; Committee Member ; Raymond B. Palmquist ; Committee Chair

University:North Carolina State University

关键词: environmental justice;    discrete-time survival analysis;    ozone;    hedonics;    housing markets;    Residential Mobility;   

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【 摘 要 】

Although a large social science literature has focused on pollution’s influenceon property values, less emphasis has been placed on residential mobility responsesto pollution. However, the literature has not addressed two questions. First, whenhomeowners move and buy bigger homes, do they expose themselves to moreozone pollution? Second, do homeowners try to avoid extended ozone exposure byreducing the time between moves? If we can address each question usinginformation about individual moving decisions, we can better understand thedistributional consequences of environmental policy and learn more about theextent of ozone avoidance behavior. This study uses a new micro data set thatcombines Bay Area housing sales, buyer characteristics, and monitor-level ozoneconcentrations. Individual buyers can be followed as they move from their oldhouse to a new house and individual houses can be tracked with the buyer’s raceand income and the house’s year-by-year ozone concentrations. The researchsuggests that conditional on moving and buying more housing services, poorminority homeowners frequently “payâ€Âfor the additional housing services bytaking on more ozone exposure. There is also evidence that after people move, theyreduce the time between moves as ozone pollution gets worse relative to other BayArea houses. As a result, the scope of ozone averting actions homeowners use toavoid ozone exposure may extend beyond common day-to-day responses such asreducing the time spent outdoors.