Racial Differences in Willingness to Pay for Hospital Access

Susane Leguizamon and David Christafore

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Abstract: We estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of individuals to have increased spatial access to hospitals using a spatial hedonic price model. Employing a dataset of over 90,000 detailed housing observations, we find that WTP of individuals to live one mile closer to a hospital is positive if the hospital is a designated public hospital, lower for private hospitals and insignificant for non-profit hospitals. Areas comprised of a relatively large population of black residents value spatial access significantly more and, for higher concentrations, exhibit a positive willingness to pay for all hospital types. This is likely due to increased transportation costs of individuals in minority areas.

Keywords: Health Care; Housing Markets; Cost-Benefit Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I18 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05-13
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