Measuring the impact of crime on house prices
This paper uses data on over 2800 house sales in Jacksonville, FL to estimate the impact of crime on house prices. A GIS programme is used to develop neighbourhood characteristics that are unique to each observation. Crime data, available for 89 police beats are assigned to each observation. Weighting the seriousness of offences by the cost of crime to victims is used as an alternative to the customary measures of the number of index crimes. The cost of crime has virtually no impact on house prices overall, but homes are highly discounted in high crime areas.
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2001
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Authors: | Lynch, Allen ; Rasmussen, David |
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Applied Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0003-6846. - Vol. 33.2001, 15, p. 1981-1989
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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