This article presents a median voter model to explain the expenditures on recreation
by local governments. The authors show that when the benefits of a public good
provided by one community can spill over to members of other communities the
correct empirical specification is a spatially autoregressive econometric model
With respect to local recreation, it was found that communities with relatively high
incomes and air pollution spend relatively less on provision.
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