The impact of in-house unnatural death on property values: Evidence from Hong Kong

• Main Authors: CHANG, Zheng, LI, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Unnatural death; Stigma effect; Housing externality; Difference-in-differences; Hong Kong; Economics; Public Economics; Real Estate
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2468; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3465/viewcontent/In_house_unnatural_death_on_property_values_HK_2018_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The occurrence of in-house unnatural death could negatively affect the value of housing property. This study evaluates the geographic and temporal scope of the impact of unnatural death on property values in Hong Kong. By exploiting the spatial and intertemporal variation of the shock in a differenc...