The willingness to pay for access to piped water: A hedonic analysis of house prices in Southwest Sri Lanka

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 151-166

  van den Berg, Caroline ^a   Nauges, Céline ^b  

^a Word Bank   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Development planning and policy; Hedonic pricing method; Household behavior; Piped water services; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867990043     PISSN: 18644031     EISSN: 1864404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12076-012-0079-y     Document Type: Letter

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