A SPATIALLY AUTOREGRESSIVE MEDIAN VOTER MODEL OF RECREATION EXPENDITURES

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