PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jowers, Kay
AU  - Ma, Yu
AU  - Timmins, Christopher
TI  - The Costs of Exposure to Industrial Livestock Operations
AID  - 10.3368/le.101.1.011224-0003
DP  - 2024 Jul 29
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 011224-0003
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/07/15/le.101.1.011224-0003.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/07/15/le.101.1.011224-0003.full
AB  - Concentrated animal feeding operations, particularly hog and poultry farms, have expanded rapidly in North Carolina in recent decades. The air pollution and water contamination they generate cause many environmental and health problems for local communities. Using the universe of farm characteristic and housing transaction data in North Carolina, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from exposure to these industrial livestock operations. Our results show large and significant negative impacts on nearby home values, particularly when those properties are dependent on private wells.