The quality of life in England and Wales

Srinivasan, Sylaja and Stewart, Geoff (2000) The quality of life in England and Wales (Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 17) Southampton, UK. University of Southampton 28pp.

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Abstract

Local amenities play an important role in determining where we choose to live and our overall quality of life. In many cases, however, amenities do not have prices and will therefore be underprovided by the market. In this paper, we use county level data for England and Wales to estimate implicit amenity prices and to calculate an index of quality of life for each county. Among our findings is a large negative price on air pollution. The range in quality of life across counties is estimated to be in excess of two thousand pounds per year.

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Published date: 2000

Additional Information: JEL classification: I31, R1

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Keywords: quality of life index, amenities, hedonic prices

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Local EPrints ID: 33032

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33032

PURE UUID: d657b787-08bc-4759-8679-afe68c156768

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Date deposited: 19 Jul 2006

Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:41

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Author: Sylaja Srinivasan

Author: Geoff Stewart

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