Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws

By Leigh L. Linden, Jonah E. Rockoff. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Estimating the Impacts of Brownfield Remediation on Housing Property Values (2012, unknown): “13 Linden and Rockoff (2008) estimate the impact of sex offender arrival in Mecklenberg County, North Carolina.”
When Walmart comes to town: Always low housing prices? Always? (2015, unknown): “…of this new wave of quasi-experimental hedonic research include Black (1999), Figlio and Lucas (2004), Chay and Greenstone (2005), Pope (2008) and Linden and Rockoff (2008), among others.7 Ultimately the impact of building a Walmart store on housing prices depends on the sorting of households…”
Do foreclosures cause crime (2013, unknown): “2 Note that several other recent papers have used difference-in-difference regression methods to identify the external effects of property characteristics on surrounding property values (Schwartz, Ellen, Voicu, and Schill, 2006; Linden and Rockoff, 2008).”
Online Appendix: The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development (2015, methodology): “However, similar to the Linden and Rockoff (2008) approach, this test is using a particular sample (i.e., only looking at homes exposed to a well pad within 10km) which is not necessarily representative of all homes affected by proximate wells.”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, unknown): “Linden and Rockoff (2008) show that home values declined nearer to the homes of sex offenders moving into neighborhoods relative to those further way.”
Foreclosure externalities: New evidence (2015, background): “(15)Linden and Rockoff (2008) estimate a version of equation (1) using data on the registration of sex offenders at particular addresses.”
Estimating the Peace Dividend: The Impact of Violence on House Prices in Northern Ireland (2009, unknown): “One recent example is the study of the impact of sex o¤enders by Linden and Rocko¤ (2008).”
The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health (2016, unknown): “5Gibbons (2004) and Linden and Rockoff (2008) show that house prices fall in response to, respectively, increases in local property crime and the presence of convicted sexual offenders in the area.”