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The demand for air quality: Evidence from the housing market in Bogotá, Colombia
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Carriazo Osorio, Fernando
Gomez-Mahecha, John Alexander
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2018
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Cambridge University Press
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Identifying a demand function for air quality is a key input to calculate welfare measurements of pollution abatement policies. We defined intra-urban housing submarkets to apply a Second Stage hedonic pricing model that allowed us to identify an inverse demand function for PM10 reductions in Bogotá. The monthly benefits of compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standard (50 ?g/m3-annual average), and the far more stringent World Health Organization standard (20 ?g/m3-annual average) are valued at US$12.16 and US$189.64 per household, respectively. These values, in turn, represent about 1.35 per cent and 21.04 per cent of the average household income. The hedonic model applied hereby shows that intra-urban housing submarkets are suitable for the identification of a demand function to be used by policy makers interested in evaluating non-marginal benefits (costs) from air quality improvements (deterioration). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018.
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Jel classifications q51 , Q53 , R31
