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Gefährliche Nachbarschaft? Welches Bild von Kriminalität die deutsche lokale und regionale Tagespresse zeichnet: Ergebnisse einer standardisierten Inhaltsanalyse
Ihle, Holger; Bernhard, Uli; Dohle, Marco - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 2, pp. 27-44
Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 … newspapers was conducted. The findings show that newspaper articles about crime take up a small, yet clearly perceivable space …
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Regional crime rates and fear of crime: WISIND findings
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 12, pp. 167-176
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
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Regionale Kriminalitätsbelastung und Kriminalitätsfurcht: Befunde der WISIND-Studie
Bug, Mathias; Kroh, Martin; Meier, Kristina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 259-269
Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500486
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Lokale Kriminalitätsberichterstattung: Abbild oder Zerrspiegel von Kriminalität?
van Um, Eric; Huch, Michael; Bug, Mathias - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 12, pp. 288-294
The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …. One key finding is that crime-related issues play a comparativelyminor role in local editions of regional subscription …. It is often alleged that crime in the media is ubiquitous but this can only be confirmed to a limited degree in local …
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The value of proximity to water in residential areas
Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan; van Marwijk, Ramona - 2014
Proximity to water is appreciated by households. Hedonic analyses that try to measure the value of this amenity are potentially biased by omitted variables as locations close to the water may be selected by households with higher incomes who construct more luxury houses. Since it is difficult to...
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The risks of nuclear disaster and its impact on housing prices
Ando, Michihito; Dahlberg, Matz; Engström, Gustav - 2017
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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Estimating demand schedules in hedonic analysis: The case of urban parks
Panduro, Toke Emil; Jensen, Cathrine Ulla; Lundhede, … - 2016
The hedonic pricing method has been used extensively to obtain implicit prices for availability of urban green space, but few hedonic studies have obtained households' preference parameters. We estimate willingness to pay functions for park availability in Copenhagen using an approach that...
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Robin Hood in reverse? Assessing distributional effects of green space policy using a second-stage hedonic house price model
Jensen, Cathrine Ulla; Panduro, Toke Emil; Lundhede, … - 2016
We analyse the housing markets in a suburb north of the Danish capital Copenhagen. We find that households sort themselves in relation to nature area. The concentration of affluent households decreases rapidly with distance to nature. This indicates that a welfare change generated by a change in...
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Informed by wet feet: How do floods affect property prices?
Reich, Stephanie K.; Hintermann, Beat; Zischg, Andreas - 2020
We investigate the effect of multiple flood events on property prices in Zurich canton of Switzerland. By merging property transaction data with records from universal and mandatory building insurance, we are able to identify the effect of the informational content of floods separately from the...
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Air pollution and the housing market: Evidence from Germany's Low Emission Zones
Gruhl, Henri; Volkhausen, Nicolas; Pestel, Nico; aus … - 2022
This paper studies whether people's perception of improvements in local air quality are reflected in the housing market based on comprehensive data on real estate prices from Germany. Using a quasi-experimental research design, we exploit the staggered introduction of Low Emission Zones (LEZs)...
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