Urban disamenities and the measure of economic welfare

Kelley, Kevin

doi:10.1016/0094-1190(77)90001-8

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“…While numerous research efforts have invoked this long-run equilibrium scenario to estimate hedonic wage equations at the intermetropolitan level [e.g., Hoch and Drake (1974), Meyer and Leone (1977), Kelley (1977), Getz and Huang (1978), Rosen (1979), Izraeli (1979)], it has also been recently invoked by Graves (1980) to posit an alternative equilibrium theory of migration. Since economic opportunity differentials should not reflect utility differentials but rather QOL differentials in long-run equilibrium, Graves ' (1980) alternative equilibrium theory posits that the migration in recent decades largely resulted from changing overall demand for QOL factors due to changing incomes and relative prices in all places.…”

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Intermetropolitan Migration and Quality of Life*

Porell

1982

Journal of Regional Science

101

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The aim of this paper is to assess the relative importance of economic and quality of life (QOL) factors as determinants of inter-metropolitan migration in the United States. The study is based on the generalized systemic gravity model of Alonso and on data from a sample of 25 SMSAs over the period 1965-1970. "The most striking feature of the empirical results is the apparent lack of importance of origin economic and QOL factors as determinants of outmigration.... On the other hand, the empirical results suggest both economic and QOL factors to be significant determinants of inmigration."

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Intermetropolitan Migration and Quality of Life*

Porell

1982

Journal of Regional Science

101

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“…The disamenities component of this approach, however, is rapidly gaining favor, at least in the U.S., as an explanation of metropolitan decline (Kelley, 1978). Briefly, the essence of this argument is that disamenities, such as pollution, crime, physical decay, social deprivation, and notably racial tension, have been the principal stumulant to the out-migration of population and industries from the older urban areas.…”

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Alternative Perspectives on Urban Decline and Population Deconcentration

Bourne

1980

Urban Geography

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INTRODUCTIONThe widely-quoted trends in most industrial countries during the 1970s toward sharply reduced rates of urban growth and a spatial redistribution of population and jobs have led to a fascinating debate, an avalanche of facts, and of course competing explanations. Perhaps the most common expressions of these trends relate to the relative-and in some instances absolute-decline of the largest metropolitan areas, a reversal of traditional migration flows into these areas and the resurgence of growth in some peripheral regions and smaller urban areas. In combination these trends imply, but do not prove, that a substantial spatial reorganization of population and economic activity is taking place. If true and persistent, they call for new images as well as new theories of the geography of our urbanized landscape and society. ObjectivesThis paper does not undertake to debate these assertions in depth, or to evaluate the empirical evidence on which they are based. In most countries, except perhaps in the United States, this evidence is as yet sparse for the 1970s. The data and analyses which are available are often contradictory or of questionable quality, and the time period involved (post-1970) is as yet still too short. For international comparisons, there is even less consistency among data sources or definitions.Instead the objectives of the paper are more modest: First, it attempts to review and summarize some of the theories-or better stated as hypotheses or perspectives-which have been put forward to account for these trends. Second, it seeks to identify some common threads-or schools of thought-in the literature, as well as competing hypotheses, with the purpose of stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue and research. Admittedly, given that the available evidence is not sufficient to prove conclusively that urban population decline and deconcentration 2 are now the dominant spatial processes, this approach may appear to be putting the cart before the proverbial horse. Yet the attention given to these phenomena in the recent academic literature is in itself sufficiently large to warrant a review of alternative assertions of why such shifts might be taking place. Since many of the explanations to date have been advanced without a sound empirical base, and without setting the early 1970s period in its longer-term historical context, we should not be surprised that recent theoretical frameworks are as yet fuzzy and incomplete. Our failure to adequately anticipate the direction and scale of changes in urban development in the 1970s testifies, as Zelinsky (1977) noted, to the inadequacy of our existing theories.More specifically, the question of whether these trends represent a "clean break" with the past, as argued by Berry (1976), Vining andStrauss (1977), and Alonso (1978b), for example, or simply a continuation of past trends of an increasingly dispersed pattern of suburbanization and exurban development, as Gordon (1979) among others contends, is also not debated here. It is not debated despite its pro...

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“…Since the theoretical work on optimal city size proposed by Alonso (1971), a large number of empirical estimations have been done, and these studies can be divided into two groups. The first group tries to build relationship between city size and urban agglomeration economies, such as the relationship between wages, employment, and city size (Kelley 1977). The second group of empirical investigations studies optimal city size based on the Henry George Theorem.…”

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Are Chinese Cities Oversized?

Shen

Thill

Sun

2019

International Regional Science Review

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In this article, the socioeconomic determinants on urban population in China are empirically investigated with a theoretical equilibrium model for city size. While much of the research on urban size focuses on the impact of agglomeration economies based on “optimal city size” theory, this model is eschewed in our research due to its theoretical paradox in the real world, and we turn instead toward an intermediate solution proposed by Camagni, Capello, and Caragliu. This equilibrium model is estimated on a sample of 111 prefectural cities in China with multiple regression and artificial neural networks. Empirical results have shown that the model explains the variance in the data very well, and all the determinants have significant impacts on Chinese city sizes. Although sample cities have reached their equilibrium sizes as a whole, there is substantially unbalanced distribution of population within the urban system, with a strong contingent of cities that are either squarely too large or too small.

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Urban disamenities and the measure of economic welfare

Cited by 28 publications

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Intermetropolitan Migration and Quality of Life*

Intermetropolitan Migration and Quality of Life*

Alternative Perspectives on Urban Decline and Population Deconcentration

Are Chinese Cities Oversized?

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