Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35785 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4110
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper outlines a general case of land use regulation in the presence of externalities and then demonstrates the usefulness of the model in an instrumental-variables estimation of a hedonic price analysis - with an application to historic preservation in Chicago. The theoretical model casts doubt on previous results concerning price effects of preservation policies. The comparative statics identify some determinants of regulation that seem, on the face of it, most unlikely to also belong in a hedonic price equation. The analysis employs these determinants as instruments for endogenous regulatory treatment in a hedonic price analysis. OLS estimation of the hedonic offers results consistent with much of previous literature, namely that property values are higher for historic landmarks. In the 2SLS hedonic, robust estimates of the own price effect of historic designation are shown to be large and negative (approx. -27%) for homes in landmark districts. Further, significant and substantively important (positive) external price effects of landmark designations are found. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of these findings for historic preservation.
Subjects: 
Hedonics
built heritage
heritage valuation
real estate economics
JEL: 
R21
R31
R52
Z1
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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