ABRSQOL: Quality-of-Life Solver for "Measuring Quality of Life under Spatial Frictions"

This toolkit implements a numerical solution algorithm to invert a quality of life measure from observed data. Unlike the traditional Rosen-Roback measure, this measure accounts for mobility frictions—generated by idiosyncratic tastes and local ties — and trade frictions — generated by trade costs and non-tradable services, thereby reducing non-classical measurement error. The QoL measure is based on Ahlfeldt, Bald, Roth, Seidel (2024) <https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:boc:bocode:s459382> "Measuring Quality of Life under Spatial Frictions". When using this programme or the toolkit in your work, please cite the paper.

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Package details

AuthorGabriel M Ahlfeldt [cph, aut] (Humboldt University of Berlin), Fabian Bald [aut] (European University Viadrina), Duncan Roth [aut] (Institute for Employment Research), Tobias Seidel [aut] (University of Duisburg-Essen), Max von Mylius [trl, cre] (Humboldt University of Berlin)
MaintainerMax von Mylius <max.mylius@hu-berlin.de>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version1.0.0
URL https://github.com/Ahlfeldt/ABRSQOL-toolkit#readme
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("ABRSQOL")

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