Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Bald, Fabian; Roth, Duncan; … - 2024
urban quality-of-life premium. Our application to Germany reveals that accounting for spatial frictions results in larger … quality-of-life differences, different quality-of-life rankings, and an urban quality-of-life premium that exceeds the urban … measurement of quality of life. We find that under a canonical parameterization, mobility frictions - generated by idiosyncratic …