The paper examines if and how state-level labor market, agricultural, and demographic conditions, public aid provisions, minimum wages, and border patrol intensities persuade or dissuade illegal and legal farmworker migration from Mexico. The study uses a nationally-representative survey of farmworkers that provides direct data on legal status, and qualitative choice modeling of individual loca...

Open space protection and the new ‘Smart Growth’ movement have to date been policy slogans lacking any formal analysis and evaluation. Evaluation of land protection policies requires a structural model for land markets with spatial delineation so that the impacts of policy on locational attributes can be described. This paper uses estimates for household preferences derived from a locational eq...

Urban competitiveness aids local development by encouraging the exploitation of opportunities for economic development and by enhancing overall performance. Previous studies have evaluated urban competitiveness primarily from an economic perspective and few studies have considered locational conditions as factors that might influence local industrialization and urbanization. In response to the ...