EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECTS OF WATER QUALITY ON RESIDENTIAL LAND PRICES

By Christopher G. Leggett, N. Bockstael. 2000

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Connecting social networks with ecosystem services for watershed governance: a social-ecological network perspective highlights the critical role of bridging organizations. (2012, background): “Additionally, lowered water quality can cause substantial economic losses if it reduces tourism or triggers declines in the value of waterfront property (Leggett and Bockstael 2000).”
Online Appendix: The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development (2015, background): “…where they are updated to reflect re-optimization and subsequent market re-equilibration. water quality (Walsh et al., 2011; Poor et al., 2007; Leggett and Bockstael, 2000), school quality (Black, 1999), crime (Linden and Rockoff, 2008; Pope, 2008b), and airport noise (Andersson et al.,…”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, background): “Similarly, in an analysis of the effect of water quality on house prices, Leggett and Bockstael (2000) note that shore-side residential properties nearer to water of higher quality are also likely to be further away from the emitters of pollution.”
Value of accessibility to Bogotá's bus rapid transit system (2004, background): “…on the form of the price function, a Box–Cox transformation was not considered as a fourth form of the price function Value of Accessibility to Bogotá’s Bus Rapid Transit System 593 because diagnosing and incorporating spatial autocorrelation become extremely complex (Leggett and Bockstael, 2000).”
Do Seller Disclosures Affect Property Values? Buyer Information and the Hedonic Model (2008, neutral): “Related to these functional form issues has been the concern that estimates may suffer from omitted variable bias (Black 1999; Leggett and Bockstael 2000; Chay and Greenstone 2005).”
Which hedonic models can we trust to recover the marginal willingness to pay for environmental amenities (2010, background): “Economists have relied on this model to measure the willingness-to-pay for improved air quality [30], to estimate the value of a statistical case of pediatric leukemia [11], to assess property value externalities from bacterial contamination of waterways [21], and to evaluate the benefits from numer”
The Impact of Small Brownfields and Greenspaces on Residential Property Values (2006, background): “and Ragas (1994); Leggett and Bockstael (2000) ; Mooney and Eisgruber (2001); Reichert et al. (1992); Tyrva ¨ inen and Miettinen (2000); and, Zabel and Kiel (2000).”
Shades of Green: Measuring the Value of Urban Forests in the Housing Market (2005, background): “Today, using satellite remote sensing, land cover and vegetation indices can be constructed over large multi-county areas (Owen et al., 1998; Geoghegan et al., 1997; Leggett and Bockstael, 2000; Acharya and Bennett, 2001; Mahan et al., 2000).”
A Critical Review of Literature on the Hedonic Price Model (2002, background): “Using the percentage of persons aged between 16 and 21 years who are high school dropouts as a proxy measure for crime and vandalism, Li and Brown (1980) found that buyers do not favour areas associated with high rates of crime or vandalism.”
Landscape amenities and local development: a review of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies (2010, background): “Its neglect in HP or other spatial data can lead to inefficient estimates and biased standard errors (Leggett and Bockstael, 2000) and therefore may demand alternative 5 Nevertheless, multi-market HP studies containing landscape amenity variables as defined in section 1 are rare.”