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Session

Land Use and Management
Location: B010
Session Chair: Xinyue Wang, Renmin University of China

Presentation 1

The Impact of Dam Removal on Property Values in the Northeastern US

Anna Lou Abatayo¹, Felix Holdorf¹, John Lynham²

1: Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Discussant: Yukiko Hashida (University of Georgia)

Our study investigates the impact of dam removal on local property prices using a combination of GIS analysis and a stacked difference-in-differences design. We find that the magnitude and direction of our results are very sensitive to the definition of near (treated) and far (control) regions; we observe both statistically significant increases and decreases in property values. Overall, our results are mixed as to whether dam removal harms or benefits nearby property owners, with evidence of a positive impact in the range of 5-9% when looking at the sample of houses within 2km of a removed dam and a negative impact in the range of 5-11% when looking at the sample of houses within 4-6.5km of a removed dam.