A revealed preference approach to ranking city quality of life

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A new method for ranking city quality of life is developed by relaxing the assumptions of the standard 'hedonic' methods that all city local public goods are observed and that the implied prices of skills and apartment characteristics across metropolitan areas are equal. Called the revealed preference approach, this method can rank city quality of life even in the absence of data on city-specific attributes. It is used to rank city quality of life for the cities of New York, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles using data from the 1980 and the 1990 Census of Population and Housing. The results show that Los Angeles and San Francisco had the highest quality of life among the five cities for the two years investigated. The quality of life in New York City is found to have declined during the 1980s.

Social aspects, Evaluation, Measurement, Quality of life, Cities and towns, Cost and standard of living, Cost of living

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An assessment of the benefits of air pollution control: the case of infant health

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Research on the impact of air pollution on race specific neonatal mortality rates is presented. The research used: a behavioral model of the demand for health; econometric techniques to obtain the willingness to pay figures; and the well-documented health indicator, neonatal mortality. A 10% reduction in the levels of sulfur dioxide would give an upper bound benefit of $1.09 billion in 1977 dollars and a lower bound benefit of $54 million.

Analysis, Patient outcomes, Mortality, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Infant mortality, Environmental policy research, Environmental health

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The silver lining of rust belt manufacturing decline

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Research reveals a link between local pollution levels and local manufacturing activity levels within a given county. Results are based on a spatial merger of county air quality data and micro manufacturing data; topics include manufacturing industries that create pollution, and the results of reduced manufacturing on quality of life.

United States, Statistical Data Included, Environmental aspects, Manufacturing processes, Manufacturing, Production management

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