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Does the study correct for class or other economic indicators?

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Robin Hanson's avatar

This is a noteworthy result, but I teach Urban Economics on occasion, and it still seems that the weight of the evidence is that overall density is too low, rather than too high. It is not obvious that whether or not you know your immediate neighbors is associated with much of a market failure, whereas there are other market failures more clearly associated with low density. Interestingly, instead of correcting for this bias, for the most part government land use policy pushes lower, rather than higher, density. See:http://www.marginalrevoluti...

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