“…Some of the issues examined using this method include air pollution (e.g., Chattopadhyay, 1999), noise (e.g., espey & Lopez, 2000, views (e.g., Benson, Hanson, Schwartz, & Smersh, 1998), zoning (e.g., Thorson, 1997), crime and vandalism (Li & Brown, 1980), and underground storage tanks (Simons, Bowen, & Sementelli, 1997). Studies have also used hedonic methods to examine the welfare effects of various public and private investments, such as house construction (Ding, Simons, & Baku, 2000;Simons, Quercia, & Maric, 1998), urban green space (Morancho, 2003), and public transportation (Chau & Ng, 1998).…”