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Costs of Exposure to Industrial Livestock Operations

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  • Kay Jowers
  • Yu Ma
  • Christopher Timmins

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Concentrated animal feeding operations, particularly hog and poultry farms, have expanded rapidly in North Carolina in recent decades. The air pollution and water contamination they generate cause many environmental and health problems for local communities. Using the universe of farm characteristics and housing transaction data in North Carolina, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from exposure to these industrial livestock operations. Our results show large and significant negative impacts on nearby home values, particularly when those properties depend on private wells.

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  • Kay Jowers & Yu Ma & Christopher Timmins, 2025. "Costs of Exposure to Industrial Livestock Operations," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 101(1), pages 1-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:101:y:2025:i:1:p:1-17
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.101.1.011224-0003
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    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects

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