The Rosen-Roback spatial equilibrium theory states that cross-city variations in wages and housing prices reflect urban residents' willingness to pay for urban amenities or quality of life. This paper is the first to quantify and rank the quality of life in Chinese cities based on the Rosen-Roback model. Using the 2005 1% Population Intercensus Survey data, we estimate the wage and housing hedonic models. The coefficients of urban amenity variables in both hedonic models are considered the implicit prices of amenities and are used as the weights to compute the quality of life for each prefecture city in China. In general, provincial capital cities and cities with nice weather, convenient transportation, and better public services have a higher quality of life. We also find that urban quality of life is positively associated with the subjective well-being of urban residents.
The fast-growing and high-yielding timber plantation base construction engineering initiated in 2002, and it’s the sixth largest forest project in China. Did the project have influence to the grain production in the past ten years? And how much the influence is? Based on this problem, the study selects Hebei province as the research area, which is around Beijing-Tianjin, and the geographical position is particularly important. It analyzes Hebei’s fast-growing trees planting area, grain sown area and yield from land using angle. Research shows that fast-growing trees planting’s time and space difference is very wide in Hebei and each city, but its influence is very small for the grain sown area, and has no effect on total grain yield. Because Fast-growing trees can improve ecological environment and bring huge economic benefits, it can continue to be planted in Hebei’s suitable area in the future. The fast-growing trees planting should occupy less cultivated land as far as possible, and reduce the influence to grain production.
The paper chooses West Hainan (Dongfang city and Changjiang county) as the research area, takes the towns as the unit, and analyses the change and relationship of population-farmland-settlement from 1950s to 1970s. The research shows that the correlation coefficient of population size and farmland area is 0.313 in 1950s and 0.417 in 1970s in West Hainans 29 towns, the two belong to low correlation, population and farmland have smaller relationship; the correlation coefficient of farmland area and settlement area is 0.454 in 1950s and 0.598 in 1970s, the two belong to moderate correlation, farmland and settlement have substantive relationship; the correlation coefficient of population size and settlement area is 0.794 in 1950s and 0.710 in 1970s, the two belong to high correlation, the relationship between the population and the settlement is very close.
The Rosen-Roback spatial equilibrium theory states that cross-city variations in wages and housing prices reflect urban residents' willingness to pay for urban amenities or quality of life. This paper is the first to quantify and rank the quality of life in Chinese cities based on the Rosen-Roback model. Using the 2005 1% Population Intercensus Survey data, we estimate the wage and housing hedonic models. The coefficients of urban amenity variables in both hedonic models are considered the implicit prices of amenities and are used as the weights to compute the quality of life for each prefecture city in China. In general, provincial capital cities and cities with nice weather, convenient transportation, and better public services have a higher quality of life. We also find that urban quality of life is positively associated with the subjective well-being of urban residents.
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