The Economic Impacts of Forest Pathogens in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach

An increase in the incidence of forest pathogens in the Western US has created new resource management issues. In this research I employ a dataset of 170,141 housing transactions in twelve Western Washington counties to quantify the impacts of parasitic forest damage on the proxy real estate market. Specifically, I estimate a set of hedonic fixed effects models to control for omitted variable bias and spatial autocorrelation. Results show statistically significant impacts on property values in the presence of species specific and aggregate defoliation, suggesting new information for forestry management and policy.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Resource Management

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Blair, Logan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Toni Sipic
• Charles Wassell, Jr.
• Mathew Novak

• Hedonic
• Environmental Economics
• Revealed Preference
• Environmental Impact
• Forest
• Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Environmental Studies
• Geographic Information Sciences
• Nature and Society Relations
• Regional Economics

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/178

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1190