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How does air pollution affect housing rental prices in Chile? An economic assessment of PM2.5 concentration across Chilean communes
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Environment and development economics, 2021-08, Vol.26 (4), p.364-380
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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This paper addresses a serious environmental concern in Chile: PM2.5 concentration, a health threat especially affecting the population living in the central and southern communes of Chile. Using housing data for 312 spatial units, along with interpolation techniques to predict air pollution for communes with missing information, we find that, on average, 1 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 produces a decrease of 4.1 per cent in housing rental prices. These estimates also show an important upward bias in the estimated coefficient when the endogeneity of air pollution is not addressed. An average Chilean household would be willing to pay US$12.31 per month for a one-unit reduction in PM2.5 concentration. Similar monetary values have been found in previous studies for both México and Chile. As with PM2.5 concentration, the average marginal willingness to pay exhibits marked differences across communes. From these results, the study addresses some policy implications and proposes avenues for future research.