Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia: The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín
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- Carlos Medina & Leonardo Morales & Jairo Nuñez, 2008. "Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia:The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín," Borradores de Economia 5126, Banco de la Republica.
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Keywords
Quality of Life; Life Satisfaction; Happiness; Segregation; Hedonic Models; Public Goods.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
- J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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