Estimating the Economic Benefits of Cleaning Up Superfund Sites: The Case of Woburn, Massachusetts

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 163-184

  Kiel, Katherine ^a   Zabel, Jeffrey ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits from cleanup; House price models; Superfund

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035591741     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007835329254     Document Type: Article

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