Estimating the Value of Environmental Quality Through Housing Prices May

question 5

Multiple Choice

Estimating the value of environmental quality through housing prices may be more accurate than industrial wage studies because

• A) housing prices are more accurately recorded than wage data.
• B) wage prices are more regulated than housing prices.
• C) industrial wage studies estimate the value of health benefits, but not the aesthetic impacts of environmental quality.
• D) people own homes for a longer period than their working lives.

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