RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Costs of Exposure to Industrial Livestock Operations
JF Land Economics
JO Land Econ
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 011224-0003
DO 10.3368/le.101.1.011224-0003
A1 Jowers, Kay
A1 Ma, Yu
A1 Timmins, Christopher
YR 2024
UL http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/07/15/le.101.1.011224-0003.abstract
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.