Does the estimated impact of wildfires vary with the housing price distribution? A quantile regression approach

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-127

  Mueller, Julie M ^a   Loomis, John B ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedonic property models; Quantile regression; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; PRICE DETERMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE; HOUSING; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902357064     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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