Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers and Property Values

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Local access to mental healthcare and crime

“…For example, the zip-code is too small as most zip-codes do not have any officebased mental healthcare providers: only 20% have such a provider (authors' analysis of the CBP zip-code level data). More granular data is useful for other questions, for example, estimating the impact of healthcare providers on property values (Horn, Joshi, & Maclean, 2019). Alternatively, the state is arguably too large a market, for example, a resident in Amarillo Texas is unlikely to travel to Houston Texas for office-based mental healthcare.…”

Review of the Bank of Russia – NES workshop ‘Identification and measurement of macroprudential policies’ effects’

“…Still, she proposed, it makes sense, rather than creating a repeat sample, to try and estimate the effects of various policies for each quarter in one model, in order to see the development of the situation over time, as she had done in the study she presented. This recognition of several policies in one model is also known as a spatial-difference-in-difference method (Horn et al, 2019). It was applied in the paper (Merika et al, 2020) to study the effects of the transition to internal models (Basel II internal ratings-based approach).…”