The hidden cost of smoking: Rent premia in the housing market

Cigdem Gedikli, Robert Hill, Oleksandr Talavera () and Okan Yilmaz

Real Estate Economics, 2023, vol. 51, issue 3, 611-629

Abstract: In this article, we provide novel evidence on the additional costs associated with smoking. While it may not be surprising that smokers pay a rent premium, we are the first to quantify the size of this premium. Our approach is innovative in that we use text mining methods that extract implicit information on landlords’ attitudes to smoking directly from Zoopla UK rental listings. Applying hedonic, matching, and machine‐learning methods to the text‐mined data, we find a positive smoking rent premium of around 6%. This translates into £14.40 of indirect costs, in addition to £40 of weekly spending on cigarettes estimated for an average smoker in the United Kingdom.

Date: 2023
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