Spatial Cost of Living Indices and the Distribution of Public Goods

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FIGURE 1
Lorenz Curves for Price-Deflated and Adjusted Income

TABLE 1

Summary Statistics for Cost of Living Indices, 1990

	Type 1	Type 2	Type 3	Type 4	Type 5	Type 6	Type 7	Type 8
10% percentile	0.804	0.788	0.755	0.749	0.818	0.785	0.760	0.757
Median	0.991	0.966	0.976	0.977	0.991	0.975	0.969	0.961
90% percentile	1.215	1.267	1.277	1.292	1.208	1.268	1.270	1.305

TABLE 2

Summary Statistics for Cost of Living Indices, 2000

	Type 1	Type 2	Type 3	Type 4	Type 5	Type 6	Type 7	Type 8
10% percentile	0.779	0.758	0.740	0.739	0.773	0.772	0.747	0.718
Median	0.994	0.976	0.983	0.981	0.986	0.979	0.972	0.973
90% percentile	1.199	1.256	1.253	1.244	1.190	1.246	1.266	1.285

TABLE 3

Regression of Cost of Living Index on Prices, PM₁₀

	ln Prices		ln PM₁₀
	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
No high school degree, no children	0.2669	0.0602	0.0043	0.0008
High school degree, no children	0.3169	0.0621	0.0050	0.0009
College degree, no children	0.2818	0.0667	0.0052	0.0009
Graduate/professional degree, no children	0.2495	0.0675	0.0055	0.0010
No high school degree, with children	0.2470	0.0497	0.0045	0.0008
High school degree, with children	0.3041	0.0706	0.0050	0.0009
College degree, with children	0.2685	0.0722	0.0052	0.0009
Graduate/professional degree, with children	0.2239	0.0716	0.0057	0.0010

TABLE 5

Type-Specific Gini Coefficients

	1990		2000
	Price-Deflated	Adjusted	Price-Deflated	Adjusted
No high school degree, no children	0.2545	0.2685	0.2895	0.3026
High school degree, no children	0.2554	0.2647	0.2757	0.2878
College degree, no children	0.2767	0.3018	0.3283	0.3441
Graduate/professional degree, no children	0.3260	0.3574	0.3683	0.3881
No high school degree, with children	0.2623	0.2740	0.2950	0.3056
High school degree, with children	0.2666	0.2741	0.2913	0.3021
College degree, with children	0.2990	0.3154	0.3633	0.3752
Graduate/professional degree, with children	0.3737	0.3917	0.4321	0.4448

TABLE 6

Gini Coefficients: Impact of Moving Costs (MC) in Adjusted Income

		1990	2000
General	Without MC	0.3247	0.3647
	With MC	0.3188	0.3595
No high school degree, no children	Without MC	0.2685	0.3026
	With MC	0.2648	0.3009
High school degree, no children	Without MC	0.2647	0.2878
	With MC	0.2593	0.2826
College degree, no children	Without MC	0.3018	0.3441
	With MC	0.2970	0.3410
Graduate/professional degree, no children	Without MC	0.3574	0.3881
	With MC	0.3558	0.3865
No high school degree, with children	Without MC	0.2740	0.3056
	With MC	0.2707	0.3043
High school degree, with children	Without MC	0.2741	0.3021
	With MC	0.2685	0.2963
College degree, with children	Without MC	0.3154	0.3752
	With MC	0.3090	0.3702
Graduate/professional degree, with children	Without MC	0.3917	0.4448
	With MC	0.3882	0.4428

TABLE A1

Macro Sorting Parameters