@misc{9490,
title = {The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception},
author = {van Praag, Bernard M.S. and Gandelman, Néstor and Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada and Ham, Andrés and Lora, Eduardo and Tetaz, Martín and Medina, Carlos and Sanguinetti, Pablo and Cruces, Guillermo and Piani, Giorgina and Alcázar, Lorena and Powell, Andrew and Núñez, Jairo and Ferre, Zuleika and Andrade, Raúl and Robalino, Juan and Madrigal, Róger and Hall, Luis J. and Morales, Leonardo},
year = {2011},
abstract = {A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of information and offers criteria to identify and rank the issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. This method--which combines the so-called 'hedonic price' and 'life satisfaction' approaches to value public goods--was tested in pilot studies in six Latin American cities:  Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellín, Montevideo, and San José of Costa Rica. This publication belongs to the Latin American Development Forum Series (LADF), sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the World Bank.},
}