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JOURNAL OF REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
Volume 22, Issue 2-3, Pages 319-337Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007860017867
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visibility; hedonic prices; environmental valuation
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This article examines the impact of a specific aspect of air quality-visibility, or the ability to clearly see distant objects-on housing values. Our analysis is based on a data set constructed by matching residential housing sales data from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area for the period 1980 through 1995 with visibility and other air pollution data and other characteristics. We find that visibility differences are capitalized into housing values, producing a measurable hedonic price gradient. The time-series design facilitates an estimate of the demand for visibility that we use to calculate the benefits of changes in visual range.
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