Quality of life in urban neighborhoods in Colombia: the cases of Bogotá and Medellín

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Borradores de Economía; No. 536
Date published
2008-11-13
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2008-11-13
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Medina-Durango, Carlos Alberto
Morales-Zurita, Leonardo Fabio
Nuñez-Méndez, Jairo
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spa
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Abstract
We use data from Bogotá and Medellín to describe key quality of life indicators of each city and illustrate their spatial segregation at the census sector level and present evidence that the main two Colombian cities are highly spatially segregated accord
JEL Codes
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and PovertyJ0 - Labor and Demographic Economics: GeneralJ1 - Demographic EconomicsD60 - Welfare Economics: GeneralH7 - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
Keywords
Quality of life ; Life satisfaction ; Happiness ; Segregation ; Hedonic models ; Public goods ;
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5553
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/5553
https://doi.org/10.32468/be.536
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/borrec/536.html
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