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Estimating the Influence of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Housing Prices

Creator:

Hossain, Lima

Abstract:

Using summertime housing transactions data of 3,309 parcels from multiple years in Eugene-Springfield, OR, we present a hedonic price model to estimate the influence of the urban heat island (UHI) effect on housing prices in this metropolitan area. By taking advantage of the inherent random nature of summertime weather observations,...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis