A Revealed Preference Approach to Ranking City Quality of Life
提出一种新的城市生活质量排序方法，利用1980和1990年人口普查数据，放松了传统特征法的假设，发现洛杉矶和旧金山的生活质量高于芝加哥和休斯顿，而纽约在1980年代有所下降。
This paper presents a new method for ranking city quality of life. I use data from the 1980 and the 1990 Census of Population and Housing to rank cities. My approach relaxes the standard "hedonic" method′s assumptions that all city local public goods are observed and that the implicit prices of all skills and apartment attributes are equal across cities. I find that Los Angeles and San Francisco have higher quality of life than Chicago and Houston in both 1980 and 1990. I find that quality of life in New York City fell during the 1980′s.