Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Marco Giovanni Brambilla
Author-X-Name-First: Marco Giovanni
Author-X-Name-Last: Brambilla
Author-Name: Alessandra Michelangeli
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Michelangeli
Author-Name: Eugenio Peluso
Author-X-Name-First: Eugenio
Author-X-Name-Last: Peluso
Author-Email: eugenio.peluso@univr.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: Equity in the City: On Measuring Urban (Ine)Quality of Life
Abstract: 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.
Length: 31
Creation-Date: 2011-05
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/Istituti/EconomiaFinanza/Quaderni/ief0101.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2011
Number: ief0101
Classification-JEL: D63, H4; R1; R2.
Keywords: Urban quality of life, amenities, hedonic prices, inequality index, just city.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie3:ief0101