Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas
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- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
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