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Shale Gas Development and Property Values: Differences across Drinking Water Sources / Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisheba Spiller, Christopher Timmins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muehlenbachs, Lucija.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18390.
- NBER working paper series no. w18390
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2012.
- Summary:
- While shale gas development can result in rapid local economic development, negative externalities associated with the process may adversely affect the prices of nearby homes. We utilize a triple-difference estimator and exploit the public water service area boundary in Washington County, Pennsylvania to identify the housing capitalization of groundwater risk, differentiating it from other externalities, lease payments to homeowners, and local economic development. We find that proximity to wells increases housing values, though risks to groundwater fully offset those gains. By itself, groundwater risk reduces property values by up to 24 percent.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2012.
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