Urban residents’ well-being relies on fair access to living service amenities. To plan better amenities, planners need balance supply and demand find gaps opportunities. We performed a spatial analysis of 2645 residential complexes in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China’s built-up area, using POI (Point Interest), AOI (Area census property data. measured the status 14 amenities by their number distance estim...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact various cultural amenities on tourism demand in 168 European cities. Design/methodology/approach Using data from Commission’s Culture and Creative Cities Monitor 2017, a series regressions are estimated while also controlling for other factors that may demand. Diagnostic tests conducted check robustness results. Findings results reveal ...

Using data from two post-frontier rural settings, Nang Rong, Thailand (N=2,538) and Chitwan Valley, Nepal (N=876), this paper examines agricultural push factors determining the outmigration of young people age 15 to 19. We focus on different dimensions of migration, including distance and duration. Our study examines a wide array of agricultural determinants, each with its own potential effect ...

Hedonic property value models have been frequently used to value environmental amenities (or dis-amenities) since markets for these goods (bads) do not usually exist. Typically, researchers cite Rosen’s (1974) seminal work that allows one to interpret functions of the hedonic regression coefficients as the marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) for the environmental good. A key assumption needed fo...

This paper proposes a subjective well-being approach to test the equilibrium condition implicit in hedonic pricing. Contrary to the conclusions of previous studies, we show that both approaches are not complementary but, rather, they are alternative ways of computing implicit prices of environmental amenities. They are equivalent when the equilibrium condition holds but, in the absence of such ...

This is one of the first studies to examine the buffering effect of neighborhood resources, specifically leisure amenities and voluntary associations, on the relationship between poor physical health and depressive symptoms among older persons in China. Using data from the 2011 baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the analytical sample included 4715 older adult...