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http://hdl.handle.net/11375/26942| Title: | The Effect of School Closures on Housing Prices in Hamilton, Ontario |
| Authors: | Merrall, John |
| Advisor: | Paez, Antonio |
| Department: | Geography and Earth Sciences |
| Keywords: | housing;econometrics;spatial analysis;spatial regression;schools;real estate |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Abstract: | Is school accessibility a valued good, and do school closures affect house prices? This thesis applies two different methods of hedonic regression analysis, augmented by spatial regression methods, to a dataset of Hamilton real estate transactions (2005-2017) to investigate whether the closure of a school in an urban neighbourhood negatively affects house prices in that closed school catchment. Evidence is found that school accessibility is a valued good, and that the closure of a primary school will negatively affect house prices from the period of closure announcement through several subsequent quarters. The use of spatial analysis corrects for bias in coefficient estimates. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/26942 |
| Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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