Spatial Cost of Living Indices and the Distribution of Public Goods
构建了考虑公共品获取的空间生活成本指数，基于美国226个都市区1990和2000年数据，发现生活成本在空间上差异显著，并用基尼系数展示了公共品分布的不平等。
This paper develops cost of living (COL) indices that vary across space. While conventional indices adjust for differences in prices, the COL defined here also reflects access to public goods. This analysis relies on the structure of a residential sorting model to estimate the COL index for each of 226 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in 1990 and 2000 in the United States. Empirical results show significant differences in the COL across the spatial landscape. This paper focuses on the Gini coefficient as a measure of inequality to demonstrate the distribution of public goods across the population. <i></i>