Estimating the Amenity Costs of Global Warming in Brazil: Getting the Most from Available Data

Christopher Timmins ()
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Christopher Timmins: Economic Growth Center, Yale University

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Abstract: This paper develops a theoretically consistent technique for valuing non-marketed local attributes using compensating income differentials in the absence of housing market data. The individual's indirect utility function is identified with aggregate data describing equilibrium location decisions, and this function is used in place of the unidentified equation describing how housing prices are determined. The model is used to value climate amenities in Brazil, where such data problems are prevalent. Similar problems arise in other developing countries, particularly when one looks outside of the largest cities.

Keywords: wage-hedonics; discrete-choice analysis; climate amenity; global warming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 O54 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 1999-11
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