Are Houses Too Big or In the Wrong Place? Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption

We would like to thank seminar participants at the New York Federal Reserve Fiscal Breakfast, the University of Michigan, the University of Tennessee, the United States Treasury (Office of Tax Analysis), and conference attendees at the 2010 National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Chicago, the 2011 Urban Economics meetings of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in Cambridge, the 2011 International Institute for Public Finance Annual Conference in Ann Arbor, the 2011 Urban Economics Association Annual Meetings in Miami, and the 2013 Tax Policy and the Economy Conference in Washington D.C. for their thoughts and suggestions. We would especially like to thank William Gale, Albert Solé-Ollé, and François Vaillancourt for their detailed discussions. David Albouy would like to acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation (SES-0922340) and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, who have named him as a David C. Lincoln Fellow for 2012-2015. All mistakes are our own. Please email albouy@illinois.edu for questions.