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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

  1. Siqi Zheng1,
  2. Matthew E. Kahn2

Article first published online: 29 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2012.00339.x

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Real Estate Economics

Real Estate Economics

Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 1–28, Spring 2013

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Zheng, S. and Kahn, M. E. (2013), Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing. Real Estate Economics, 41: 1–28. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2012.00339.x

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  1. 1

    Hang Lung Center for Real Estate and Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China or zhengsiqi@tsinghua.edu.cn.

  2. 2

    Institute of the Environment, Department of Economics, Department of Public Policy, Anderson School of Management, UCLA School of Law, University of California—Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138 or mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu.

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  1. Issue published online: 24 FEB 2013
  2. Article first published online: 29 JUL 2012

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