Residential location choice in a developing country: What matter? A choice experiment application in Burkina Faso
Sidnoma Traoré
Forest Policy and Economics, 2019, vol. 102, issue C, 1-9
Abstract:
This paper assesses the benefits derived from environmental amenities, and more specifically from an urban park, from data on residential location choices. Household decisions regarding their residential location have important implications for urban planning. This paper uses a choice experiment pivot design (CE) to empirically analyze the trade-off between location attributes such as distance to an urban park and distance to workplace in the context of a developing country in which environmental questions are generally considered of lower priority. The limitation of transportation and communication networks suggests that the “tyranny of distance” is even more significant in this particular context than in larger cities located in more developed countries. Results show that inhabitants are willing to pay more in order to live close to an urban park than to their workplace. Furthermore, I find that preferences are heterogeneous and that the attribute corresponding to the presence of relatives in the area is associated with the highest willingness to pay.
Keywords: Residential location; Developing country; Urban forest; Choice experiment; Willingness to pay space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2019.01.021
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