Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption

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. 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 Tom Davidoff, William Gale, Albert Solé-Ollé, Jim Poterba, and François Vaillancourt for their detailed discussions. All mistakes are our own. Please email albouy@illinois.edu for questions. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.