Location Choice and Food Trade-Offs: Does Local Matter?
利用住房交易数据估计消费者对居住地附近直销本地食品的偏好，发现消费者重视健康食品获取，但增加本地食品获取的政策带来的福利收益和价格变化取决于目标定位方法。
<h3>Abstract</h3> We use housing transactions to estimate consumer preferences for living near direct-marketed locally produced food, which has implications for both consumer- and producer-centric land use policies. We estimate a pure characteristics sorting model to recover preferences and conduct counterfactual simulations accounting for price feedback effects following resorting after changes to the local food environment. We find that consumers significantly value healthy food access, including different direct sources of locally produced foods. However, the welfare gains and associated price changes arising from policies to increase local food access depend on the targeting method, a key concern for policymakers worried about affordability.