Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States

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Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States

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Henry G. Overman
Diego Puga
Matthew Turner

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This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give therelative contributions of changing demographics versus increases in the land area used by individualhouseholds. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.5%while population only grew 17.8%. At first glance, this suggests an important role for per-householdincreases.However, the calculations in this paper show that only 24.3% of the growth in residential landarea can be attributed to State level changes in land per household. 37.5% is due to overall populationgrowth, 5.9% to the shift of population towards States with larger houses, 22.7% to an increase in thenumber of households over this period, and the remaining 9.5% to interactions between these changes.There are large differences across states and metropolitan areas in the relative importance of thesecomponents.

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- Overman, Henry G. & Puga, Diego & Turner, Matthew A., 2008. "Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 487-497, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Henry G. Overman & Diego Puga & Matthew A. Turner, 2007. "Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States," Working Papers tecipa-278, University of Toronto, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
- Henry G. Overman & Diego Puga & Matthew A. Turner, 2007. "Decomposing the growth in residential land in the United States," Working Papers 2007-02, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Ciencias Sociales. [Downloadable!]
- Overman, Henry G. & Puga, Diego & Turner, Matthew A, 2007. "Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States," CEPR Discussion Papers 6190, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Find related papers by JEL classification:
R14 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
O51 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2007-03-31 (All new papers)
NEP-GEO-2007-03-31 (Economic Geography)
NEP-URE-2007-03-31 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)

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