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A Theory-Based Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution / Patrick Bajari, Jane Cooley, Kyoo il Kim, Christopher Timmins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bajari, Patrick.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15724.
- NBER working paper series no. w15724
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- A Theory-Based Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- We propose a new strategy for a pervasive problem in the hedonics literature--recovering hedonic prices in the presence of time-varying correlated unobservables. Our approach relies on an assumption about homebuyer rationality, under which prior sales prices can be used to control for time-varying unobservable attributes of the house or neighborhood. Using housing transactions data from California's Bay Area between 1990 and 2006, we apply our estimator to recover marginal willingness to pay for reductions in three of the EPA's "criteria" air pollutants. Our findings suggest that ignoring bias from time-varying correlated unobservables considerably understates the benefits of a pollution reduction policy.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2010.
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