Crime and residential choice: A neighborhood level analysis of the impact of crime on housing prices

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-317

  Tita, George E ^a   Petras, Tricia L ^b   Greenbaum, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs of crime; Hedonic modeling; Housing markets; Neighborhood transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749656222     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-006-9013-z     Document Type: Article

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