Is the influence of quality of life on urban growth non-stationary in space? A case study of Barcelona

Vicente Royuela, Rosina Moreno () and Esther Vaya ()
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Esther Vaya: Faculty of Economics, University of Barcelona

No 200703, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: There are several determinants that influence household location decisions. More concretely, recent economic literature assigns an increasingly important role to the variables governing quality of life. Nevertheless, the spatial stationarity of the parameters is implicitly assumed in most studies. Here we analyse the role of quality of life in urban economics and test for the spatial stationarity of the relationship between city growth and quality of life.

Keywords: quality of life; urban economics; geographically weighted regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E00 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2007-02, Revised 2007-02
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