Consumers value nonmarket amenities such as climate, public goods, infrastructure, and pollution. They pay for these localized amenities indirectly, through spatial variation in housing prices and wages. In this paper, we develop a macroeconomic measure of indirect amenity expenditures that is consistent with microeconomic fundamentals of spatial equilibrium and principles of national income ac...

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in a hospital’s amenities raises its demand by 38.5% on average, wher...

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. This allows the results fr...

Web amenities are integrated software components for the support of interoperable machine to machine interaction over a network. Some previous problems are 1) earlier approaches are not succeed to consider the QoS variation according to users locations; and 2) earlier recommender systems are all black boxes it just takes input from user and provide different amenities that provide incomplete or...

Rent extraction by public sector workers may be limited by the ability of taxpayers to vote with their feet. But rent extraction may be higher in regions where high amenities mute the migration response. This paper develops a theoretical model that predicts such a link between public sector wage differentials and local amenities, and the predictions are tested by analyzing variation in these di...

Remote agricultural lands, which include wildlife habitat, angling opportunities and scenic vistas, command higher prices per hectare in Wyoming than those whose landscape is dominated by agricultural production. Geographic information systems (GIS) data are used to measure recreational and scenic amenities associated with rural land. A hedonic price model is specified with GIS measures. It is ...

This paper examines the links between community homogeneity and the demand for environmental quality. Using data from California, this paper shows that communities that are more homogeneous in terms of race and educational attainment are more likely to support the public provision of environmental goods, after controlling for political ideology, voter turnout, and the distribution of benefits a...

the economic and market value of environmental goods and services are hidden. among the conventional methods of valuing and economic pricing the environmental amenities, one is hedonic pricing method (hpm) which in terms of economic point of view is based on the hypothesis that people usually determine their environmental consumption preference levels through choosing their houses. therefore, i...

The dependence of property values on a schedule of ‘amenities’ is examined in the case of a ‘small’ and ‘open’ city and in the case of a ‘closed’ city. Questions concerned with the predictability and interpretation of changes in equilibrium property values following an improvement in amenities are considered in these cases. The problem of identifying the implicit demand for amenities from a sin...