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Front Cover; Measuring the Benefits of Water Pollution Abatement; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Scope and Background; 2. Discharges and Ambient Environmental Quality; 3. The Dimensions of Ambient Water Quality; 4. Effects of Ambient Water Quality on Human Welfare; Chapter 2. Welfare Economics and the Basis of Benefit Measurement; 1. The Nature of Welfare Economics; 2. Basic Welfare Analysis; 3. Market Failure and Government Intervention to Ensure Market Efficiency; 4. Benefit Measures for Public Goods; Chapter 3. Economic Theory of Benefit Measurement.

City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy is an interdisciplinary study of differential urban development in the United States since 1945 that aims to place urban policy choices in historical perspective. The book discusses the issues and establishes a framework within which relevant quantitative measurements can be interpreted. The text also describes systematic empirical tests, which typically take the form of regression equations, and traces city population changes into two proximate causes: annexation and urban growth. The reasons for annexation contrasts among the nation's largest cities

The Economics of Labor Migration.

This volume is a follow-up to the earlier Urban Economics, Volume 2 of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edited by Edwin Mills. The earlier volume, published in 1987, focussed on urban economic theory. This new handbook, in contrast, focuses on applied urban research. The difference is of course in emphasis. The earlier volume was by no means entirely concerned with theoretical research and this one is by no means entirely concerned with applied research. There have certainly been important theoretical developments during the last decade, and they are surveyed at appropriate places in this volume. However, there has been an outpouring of high quality applied research in urban economics, as in other specialties. The reasons for the rapid growth of applied research are not difficult to identify; improved theoretical frameworks within which to do applied research; improved econometric techniques and software; more and better data; and, probably most important, ever cheaper computing power, which is being ever more widely distributed within the research community, providing increasingly easy access to and analysis of, data. Selection and classification of topics to include in this handbook has inevitably depended on the editors' perceptions of subjects on which important research has been undertaken. It has also depended on the availability of authors who were able and willing to write critical surveys of large amounts of international research. An attempt was made to include authors and have them survey research from a variety of countries. However, there is still a US bias in applied urban research, partly related to the availability of data and computers but also to the sheer size of the US research community

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A Survey of Urbanization in Korea -- Causes and Comparisons of Urban Growth -- Primacy and City Size Distribution -- Migration -- Structure of Cities -- Land Values -- Housing -- Urban Transportation -- Environmental Quality -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Appendix to Chapter 2 Statistical Data on Urbanization in Korea -- Appendix to Chapter 3 Statistical Data on Urban Growth -- Appendix to Chapter 4 Statistical Data on Primacy and City Size Distribution -- Appendix to Chapter 5 Statistical Data on Migration -- Appendix to Chapter 6 Statistical Data on Structure of Cities -- Appendix to Chapter 7 Statistical Data on Land Values -- Appendix to Chapter 8 Statistical Data on Housing -- Appendix to Chapter 9 Statistical Data on Urban Transportation -- Appendix to Chapter 10 Statistical Data on Environmental Quality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.