The Tiebout Hypothesis in the United States: An Analysis of Black Consumer-Voters, 1970-75

Cebula, Richard and Avery, Leslie (1982): The Tiebout Hypothesis in the United States: An Analysis of Black Consumer-Voters, 1970-75. Published in: Public Choice , Vol. 41, No. 2 (22 April 1983): pp. 307-310.

Abstract

This study provides a preliminary empirical investigation as to whether black-consumer voters were attracted by the prospect of higher AFDC benefits as they made interstate migration decisions over the 1970-75 time period. Unlike most previous studies, there was no compelling evidence of such a attraction. Of course, this study is only preliminary, and one could easily make an argument that there are omitted variables from the estimating equations.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: collective decision making; welfare magnet; black migration
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior; D - Microeconomics > D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making > D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation; H - Public Economics > H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents > H31 - Household; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers

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