TY  - GEN
AU  - van Praag, Bernard M.S.
AU  - Gandelman, Néstor
AU  - Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
AU  - Ham, Andrés
AU  - Lora, Eduardo
AU  - Tetaz, Martín
AU  - Medina, Carlos
AU  - Sanguinetti, Pablo
AU  - Cruces, Guillermo
AU  - Piani, Giorgina
AU  - Alcázar, Lorena
AU  - Powell, Andrew
AU  - Núñez, Jairo
AU  - Ferre, Zuleika
AU  - Andrade, Raúl
AU  - Robalino, Juan
AU  - Madrigal, Róger
AU  - Hall, Luis J.
AU  - Morales, Leonardo
TI  - The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities: Markets and Perception
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/12/08
AB  - 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.
ER  -