PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nolte, Christoph
AU  - Boyle, Kevin J.
AU  - Chaudhry, Anita M.
AU  - Clapp, Christopher
AU  - Guignet, Dennis
AU  - Hennighausen, Hannah
AU  - Kushner, Ido
AU  - Liao, Yanjun
AU  - Mamun, Saleh
AU  - Pollack, Adam
AU  - Richardson, Jesse
AU  - Sundquist, Shelby
AU  - Swedberg, Kristen
AU  - Uhl, Johannes H.
TI  - Data Practices for Studying the Impacts of Environmental Amenities and Hazards with Nationwide Property Data
AID  - 10.3368/le.100.1.102122-0090R
DP  - 2024 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 200--221
VI  - 100
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/1/200.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/100/1/200.full
AB  - We discuss data quality and modeling issues inherent in the use of nationwide property data to value environmental amenities. By example of Zillow’s Transaction and Assessment Database, a real estate database covering the United States, we identify challenges and propose guidance for (1) identifying arm’s-length sales; (2) geolocating parcels and buildings; (3) identifying temporal links between transaction, assessor, and parcel data; (4) identifying property types, such as single-family homes and vacant lands; and (5) dealing with missing or mismeasured data for standard housing attributes. We review current practice and show that how researchers address these issues can meaningfully influence research findings.