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Ease vs. Noise: Long-run changes in the value of transport (dis)amenities

Nitsch, Volker ; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. ; Wendland, Nicolai (2019)
Ease vs. Noise: Long-run changes in the value of transport (dis)amenities.
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Item Type: Report
Type of entry: Primary publication
Title: Ease vs. Noise: Long-run changes in the value of transport (dis)amenities
Language: English
Date: September 2019
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Series: Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics
Series Volume: 236
Abstract:

For a complete cost‐benefit analysis of durable infrastructures, it is important to understand how the value of non‐market goods such as transit time and environmental quality changes as incomes rise in the long‐run. We use difference‐in‐differences and spatial differencing to estimate the land price capitalization effects of metro rail in Berlin, Germany today and a century ago. Over this period, the negative implicit hedonic price of rail noise tripled. Our results imply income elasticities of the value of noise reduction and transport access of 2.2 and 1.4, substantially exceeding cross‐sectional contingent valuation estimates.

URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-91550
Classification DDC: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Divisions: 01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete
01 Department of Law and Economics > Volkswirtschaftliche Fachgebiete > International Economics
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2019 10:58
Last Modified: 12 Nov 2021 08:28
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/9155
PPN: 455240884
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