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Are rural residents willing to trade-off higher noise for lower air pollution? Evidence from revealed preferences
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Abstract The rise in urbanization has led to an expansion of traditional urban externalities toward suburban and rural areas together with changes in the preferences of human populations for noise and air pollution. This paper analyses the preferences of the population living in rural, suburban and urban are... view more
The rise in urbanization has led to an expansion of traditional urban externalities toward suburban and rural areas together with changes in the preferences of human populations for noise and air pollution. This paper analyses the preferences of the population living in rural, suburban and urban areas for noise and air pollution utilizing a revealed preference approach. Data on actual choices of residential location are analysed utilizing a Latent Class Discrete Choice model that raises two different groups of residents with different preferences for air and noise pollution. As expected and confirmed by the Multinomial and Mixed Logit models, the first group of the Latent Class model accepts higher levels of noise and air pollution in urban than in suburban and rural areas. However, the second group of residents have preferences for higher levels of noise and lower levels of air pollution in rural and suburban than in urban areas. Thus, results show some rural residents are willing to trade higher levels of noise for lower levels of air pollution, indicating adaptation of preferences to a lower level of the traditional tranquillity enjoyed in less densely populated rural areas.... view less
Keywords
town; rural area; place of residence; choice of place of residence; preference; noise; noise pollution; air; quality of life; environmental pollution; heterogeneity
Classification
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
rural and urban areas; residential location; air pollution; latent class model; EU-SILC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 1-8
Journal
Ecological Economics, 207 (2023)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107784
ISSN
0921-8009
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed