Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20331 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1096
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly reflected by house price differentials. This is based on the implicit assumption that there is a well-functioning housing market. If that is not true, we need a correction method in order to assess the intangible damage. We assess the monetary value of the noise damage, caused by aircraft noise nuisance around Amsterdam Airport as the sum of hedonic price differentials and a residual cost component. The residual costs are assessed from a survey, including an ordinal life satisfaction scale, on which individual respondents have scored. The derived compensation scheme depends on, among other things, the objective noise level, income, the degree to which prices account for noise differences, and the presence of noise insulation.
Subjects: 
cost-benefit analysis
externalities
airport noise
satisfaction analysis
residual shadow costs
JEL: 
H23
D61
D62
C25
L93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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