The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Values and Rents: Evidence from Restricted Census Microdata

Current trends in electricity consumption imply that hundreds of new fossil-fuel power plants will be built in the United States over the next several decades. Power plant siting has become increasingly contentious, in part because power plants are a source of numerous negative local externalities i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Lucas W.
Format: Working Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45653