Cleaning up brownfields such as Superfund sites is expected to catalyze neighborhood change in the vicinity. Several previous studies have estimated changes in housing prices associated with Superfund sites, with mixed results. This paper provides new estimates of price effects associated with...

Is the cross-sectional distribution of house prices close to a (log)normal distribution, as is often assumed in empirical studies on house price indexes? How does it evolve over time? How does it look like during the period of housing bubbles? To address these questions, we investigate the...