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- Title
Willingness to Pay for Hospital Access in Areas with High Concentrations of Blacks.
- Authors
Christafore, David; Leguizamon, Susane
- Abstract
We estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of individuals to have increased spatial access to hospitals using a spatial hedonic price model. Employing a dataset of 6,093 observations at the census block group level, we find that the WTP of individuals to live one mile closer to a hospital is positive if the hospital is a designated public hospital, lower for private hospitals, and insignificant for nonprofit hospitals. Areas comprised of a relatively large population of black residents value spatial access significantly more and, for higher concentrations, exhibit a positive WTP for all hospital types. This is likely due to increased transportation costs of individuals in minority areas.
- Subjects
WILLINGNESS to pay; HOSPITAL research; TRANSPORTATION costs; AFRICAN Americans; AREA studies
- Publication
Review of Regional Studies, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0048-749X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.52324/001c.8068