PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Connolly, Cristina
AU  - Klaiber, H. Allen
TI  - Location Choice and Food Trade-Offs: Does Local Matter?
AID  - 10.3368/le.100.3.122322-0110R
DP  - 2024 Aug 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 526--546
VI  - 100
IP  - 3
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/3/526.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/3/526.full
AB  - 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 policy makers worried about affordability.