Valuing access to urban greenspace using non-linear distance decay in hedonic property pricing

implicit pricing of urban green space using hedonic pricing: (case study: karaj, jahanshahr region)

environmental characteristics, including the quality of green spaces, constitute one of the determinants of buildings (house & apartment) transaction prices. in this research, impact of urban green space on building's transaction prices (rials/m2) in karaj region, district 1 (jahanshahr), was analyzed. therefore, a questionnaire concerning building characteristics and transaction prices wa...

Valuing Intellectual Property: an Experiment

I. THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R A. Classical Economics and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . 5 R B. Behavioral Challenges to the Rational Choice Model: The Endowment Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 1. The Strength of the Endowment Effect . ....

Using Residential Sorting Behavior to Better Understand the Relationship Between Urban Greenspace and Health

A recent wave of research in public health finds associations between the proximity of an individual to greenspace and various health outcomes, including obesity, cardiovascular disease rates, depression, and anxiety. Based on these associations, it is sometimes assumed that better access to parks will lead to improved health outcomes. My project addresses this assumption by focusing on an issu...

Valuing Urban Bus Attributes

The article presents the marginal willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for various qualitative and quantitative attributes of travel with reference to the bus transportation system in Kolkata City, India. A stated choice experiment is designed to capture the responses for estimating marginal WTP values for various attributes. WTP values are estimated separately for commuting and noncommuting trip...

Valuing Urban Wetlands