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Valuing Access to Water--A Spatial Hedonic Approach, with an Application to Bangalore, India

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dc.contributor.authorAnselin, Luc
dc.contributor.authorLozano-Gracia, Nancy
dc.contributor.authorDeichmann, Uwe
dc.contributor.authorLall, Somik
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:35:01Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:35:01Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractAn important infrastructure policy issue for rapidly growing cities in developing countries is how to raise fiscal revenues to finance basic services in a fair and efficient manner. This requires estimates of the potential benefits or positive welfare effects that may follow from improved infrastructure. In this paper, we take advantage of a unique geo-referenced household survey to carry out a hedonic analysis of housing values that explicitly accounts for spatial spillovers. We use this to derive an estimate of the value of improved access to water in the Indian city of Bangalore. The findings suggest that by limiting the focus to individual or private benefits only, we may underestimate the overall social welfare from investing in service supply. We further demonstrate how spatially explicit policy simulations based on these estimates provide insight into the total effects of targeted interventions.en
dc.identifier.citationSpatial Economic Analysis
dc.identifier.issn17421772
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5884
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectRenewable Resources and Conservation: Water Q250
dc.subjectUrban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Housing Demand R210
dc.subjectPublic Facility Location Analysis
dc.subjectPublic Investment and Capital Stock R530
dc.titleValuing Access to Water--A Spatial Hedonic Approach, with an Application to Bangalore, Indiaen
dc.title.alternativeSpatial Economic Analysisen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.journal.nbpages161-179
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryIndia
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okr.volume5
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