Noisy Neighborhood but Nice House? Pollution and the Choice of Residential Location and Housing Quality

Samuel Lindgren

Land Economics, 2021, vol. 97, issue 4, 781-796

Abstract: This study analyzes how information about noise pollution affects neighborhood composition and households’ choice of housing quality. I find that the announcement of a renewal of an airport operating contract induced high-income households to shift away from the zone exposed to airport noise. High-income households who still located in the airport noise zone after the announcement selected homes of better quality. These results help reconcile mixed findings on residential sorting in the literature.

JEL-codes: Q53 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.97.4.042120-0058R1
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