Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and "Green" social status

European Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 961-973

  Dastrup, Samuel R ^a   Graff Zivin, Joshua ^b   Costa, Dora L ^c   Kahn, Matthew E ^d  

^a The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmentalism; Real estate prices; Solar panels

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTALISM; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; PROPERTY MARKET; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLAR POWER;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862333700     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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