RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Noisy Neighborhood but Nice House? Pollution and the Choice of Residential Location and Housing Quality
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 781
OP 796
DO 10.3368/le.97.4.042120-0058R1
VO 97
IS 4
A1 Lindgren, Samuel
YR 2021
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/4/781.abstract
AB 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.