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

Marco Giovanni Brambilla, Alessandra Michelangeli and Eugenio Peluso

No ief0101, DISCE - Quaderni dell'Istituto di Economia e Finanza from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE)

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.

Keywords: Urban quality of life; amenities; hedonic prices; inequality index; just city. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 H4 R1 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2011-05
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