Something in the Water? Testing for Groundwater Quality Information in the Housing Market
| dc.creator | McLaughlin, Patrick A. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T15:21:59Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T05:49:05Z | |
| dc.description | I test the level of information regarding possible groundwater contamination in the residential real estate market in Washington County, Minnesota. An approximately seven square-mile trichloroethylene plume has affected hundreds of households’ water supplies since at least 1988 in the region. I find that homeowners were initially well-informed by market forces, but were later somewhat misinformed by government actions regarding the potential of water contamination from the plume. A disclosure law passed in 2003 may have added new, low-cost, and imperfect information to the market that could explain the change in informational awareness. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.117207 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117207/files/JARE_Aug2011__10_pp375-394_McLaughlin.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117207 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/568738 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/117207 | |
| dc.title | Something in the Water? Testing for Groundwater Quality Information in the Housing Market | |
| dc.type | Text |