MEASURING EFFECT OF REDUCING MIGRANT SUBSIDY BY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Abstract

 The purpose of this study is to explore social values of natural environments by measuring an amount of reducing a migrant subsidy supplied for people who hope to immigrate from an urban city to a rural city. The survey searches residents who live in 21 large cities of Japan and hope to migrate, requiring them to answer their desired amounts of subsidies (willingness-to-accept value; WTA) and important residential environments (policy variables) if migrated. Estimation results indicate that policy variables are categorized as i) the ones of reducing subsidy amounts, and ii) not reducing. Benefit calculations show a base line WTA value (BWTAV) calculated by using ii is about 590 thousand yen per once; Housing environment improvements is most effective, reducing about 52 thousand yen, then natural environment protections reduce about 33 thousand yen from BWTAV, respectively.