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The Marginal Value of Public Pension Wealth: Evidence from Border House Prices / Darren Aiello, Asaf Bernstein, Mahyar Kargar, Ryan Lewis, Michael Schwert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aiello, Darren.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29405.
- NBER working paper series no. w29405
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- We study effects of state pension windfalls on property prices near state borders, where theory suggests real estate reflects the value of additional public resources. Windfalls have grown to represent more than one-third of state revenues and provide plausibly well-identified variation in fiscal conditions. We find one dollar of exogenous variation in pension asset returns increases border house prices by approximately two dollars. These estimates suggest governments, rather than wasting incremental resources, allocate additional funds towards high value projects or tax abatement. Evidence of larger effects in financially constrained municipalities highlight how fiscal resources amplify welfare effects of economic shocks.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2021.
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