Amenities, quality of life, and regional development

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 107-133

  Mulligan, Gordon F ^a   Carruthers, John I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographically Weighted Regression; Housing Price; Natural Amenity; Regional Development; Spatial Error Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85200479729     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1742-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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