People like to live in certain places, even when higher wages are on offer elsewhere. Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel show that once you take into account people's preferences, large cities offer a higher quality of life than previously thought.

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24 February 2025

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LSE Euro PP

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/02/24/a-new-measure-of-quality-of-life-explains-why-people-like-living-in-bigger-cities/

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