ENDNOTES

1. Starting with its 1998 ranking, Money began using a representative sample of the population. Also, its web site (www.pathfinder.com/money/bestplaces/) allows visitors to produce personalized rankings. Unfortunately, though, beginning in 1998 the magazine ranks metro areas within regions only, and no longer provides a single national ranking.
2. The rational index is outlined in detail in Douglas and Wall (1993) and Douglas (1997).
3. The data used to rank the livability of these metro areas from 1990-97 are in Table B-1 of U.S. Census Bureau (1998).

FOR FURTHER READING

Douglas, Stratford, and Howard J. Wall. "'Voting with your Feet' and the Quality of Life Index," Economics Letters (42: 1993), pp. 229-36.

Douglas, Stratford. "Estimating Relative Standard of Living in the United States Using Cross-Migration Data," Journal of Regional Science (August 1997), pp. 411-36.

Carla Fried, Jeanhee Kim, and Amanda Walmac. "Our 11th Annual Survey of the Best Places to Live in America," Money (July 1997).

Savageau, David, and Geoffrey Loftus. Places Rated Almanac, Fifth Edition, MacMillan (1997). U.S. Bureau of the Census. State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 1997-98, Fifth Edition (1998).