Equity in the City: On Measuring Urban (Ine)Quality of Life

We merge contributions from the New Urban Economics and inequality measurement to assess quality of life (QOL) in a given city. We take the point of view of a city planner in favor of an even accessibility to amenities within the city. Instead of the average value of amenities computed in the Roback (1982) QOL index, our index captures the value of its multidimensional "certainty equivalent". We apply this methodology to derive a QOL index for the city of Milan.

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Year of publication:	2011-05
Authors:	Brambilla, Marco Giovanni ; Michelangeli, Alessandra ; Peluso, Eugenio
Institutions:	Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Subject:	Urban quality of life \| amenities \| hedonic prices \| inequality index \| just city

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	DISCE - Quaderni dell'Istituto di Economia e Finanza.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number ief0101 3 pages long
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; H4 - Publicly Provided Goods ; R1 - General Regional Economics ; R2 - Household Analysis
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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