Compensating Differentials and Evolution in the Quality-of-Life Among U.S. States

By Stuart A. Gabriel, Joe P. Mattey, William L. Wascher. 2003

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Local amenities and life-cycle migration: Do people move for jobs or fun? (2008, background): “6 See Albouy (2008), Blomquist (2006), Gabriel et al. (2003), Greenwood et al. (1991), Graves and Knapp (1988), Graves and Waldman (1991), Kahn (1995), Krumm (1980), or Smith (1983), for additional studies of the influence of local amenities on compensating variations and related migration…”
Well-Being across America (2011, unknown): “More broadly, our paper is in an intellectual tradition that includes Schkade and Kahneman (1998), Plaut, Markus, and Lachman (2002), Gabriel, Mattey, and Wascher (2003), Propper et al. (2005), Weich et al. (2005), Powdthavee (2006), Moro et al. (2008), and Luechinger (2009).3 Propper et al. (2005)…”
Driving to opportunity local rents, wages, commuting costs and sub-metropolitan quality of life (2015, background): “One concern with such an index is that it is sensitive to which amenities the researcher considers relevant.2 Gabriel et al. (2003) factor in non-housing costs-of-living in addition to rents, albeit only at the state level.”
Agglomeration spillovers and wage and housing cost gradients across the urban hierarchy (2009, background): “The variable HCOST is defined as the log of weighted average median gross rent ($ per month) of owner and renter-occupied housing units for 2000 (Gabriel et al., 2003).”