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Hedonic housing prices and environmental quality in Lebanon

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  • Walid Marrouch
  • Nagham Sayour
Abstract
Purpose - This study aims to examine the impact of local air pollution on housing prices in Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach - The authors apply a hedonic pricing approach using a unique data set from Lebanon. To account for non-linearities in pricing, the authors use three different functional regression forms for the hedonic model approach. The authors also deal with potential omitted variable bias by estimating a hedonic frontier specification. Findings - The authors find that, in all specifications, air pollution negatively and significantly affects housing prices. The estimated marginal willingness to pay for a one microgram per cubic meter change in particulate matter (PM10) concentration ranges between 2.88% and 3.18% of mean housing prices. The authors also provide evidence of a negative pricing gradient away from the city center, landing support for the monocentric urban development hypothesis. Research limitations/implications - Given the lack of a data set linking household socioeconomic characteristics with housing data, the authors only consider the first-stage hedonic model. Practical implications - The proposed hedonic pricing regression approximates a housing pricing equation that can be used by policymakers. Social implications - The findings suggest that pollution is a significant factor in household behavior in Lebanon. Originality/value - This paper adds to the scant literature studying the effects of air pollution on housing prices in developing countries. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to study the impact of pollution on housing prices in a country in the Middle East and North Africa Region.

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  • Walid Marrouch & Nagham Sayour, 2021. "Hedonic housing prices and environmental quality in Lebanon," International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(5), pages 953-968, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijhmap:ijhma-08-2020-0100
    DOI: 10.1108/IJHMA-08-2020-0100
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