TY - JOUR T1 - Property Values, Water Quality, and Benefit Transfer: A Nationwide Meta-analysis JF - Land Economics JO - Land Econ SP - 191 LP - 218 DO - 10.3368/le.98.2.050120-0062R1 VL - 98 IS - 2 AU - Dennis Guignet AU - Matthew T. Heberling AU - Michael Papenfus AU - Olivia Griot Y1 - 2022/05/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/98/2/191.abstract N2 - We construct a comprehensive, publicly available meta-dataset based on 36 hedonic studies that examine the effects of water quality on housing values in the United States. The meta-dataset includes 656 unique estimates and entails a cluster structure that accounts for price effects at different distances. Focusing on water clarity, we estimate reduced-form meta-regressions that account for within-market dependence, statistical precision, housing market and waterbody heterogeneity, publication bias, and methodological practices. Although we find evidence of systematic heterogeneity, the out-of-sample transfer errors are large. We discuss the implications for benefit transfer and future work to improve transfer performance. ER -