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We examine neighborhood externalities that arise from the perceived risk associated with the proximity of a registered sex offender's residence. We find large negative externality effects on a property's price and liquidity, employing empirical techniques that include a fixed-effects OLS model,...
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This paper analyzes the effect that living near a sex offender has on the marketability of ones home. Specifically, we estimate the impact on a homes sales price, its list price, and on the length of time it takes to for the home to sell. Since the 1994 passage of Sexual Offender Act (known as...
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variation in the threat of crime within small homogenous groupings of homes, and we use the timing of sex offenders' arrivals to … offenders or view living near an offender as having costs exclusive of crime risk …
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We examine neighborhood externalities that arise from the perceived risk associated with the proximity of a registered sex offender’s residence. We find large negative externality effects on a property’s price and liquidity, employing empirical techniques that include a fixed-effects OLS...
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We investigate the relationship between crime and property prices in the Santiago (Chile) real estate market. Our study … general crime has a negative effect on property prices, but the size of this effect varies considerably depending on the type … of crime. We also find that apartments respond almost immediately to changes in crime rates while single-family homes …
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This paper investigates how the hedonic equilibrium is modified when discrete consumer heterogeneity with horizontal differentiated housing supply is assumed. Our results are threefold. First, discrete consumer heterogeneity leads to a segmentation of the hedonic price function at equilibrium...
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Using a data set on housing sales transactions we explore the potential effect of the Fukushima disaster on housing prices in Sweden. In contrast to most earlier findings in other countries we do not find any disproportionate effect from the Fukushima disaster on housing prices in vicinity of...
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The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
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