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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Land Econ. 2022 Feb 1;98(2):191–218. doi: 10.3368/le.98.2.050120-0062r1

Table II.

Descriptive Statistics of Observations Pertaining to Water Clarity.

Variable Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
Dependent variable:
Elasticity 0.1167 0.2543 −0.6478 1.7198
Study area/commodity variables:
Waterfronta 0.6808 0.4671 0 1
Mean clarity (Secchi disk depth, meters) 2.34 1.97 0.38 6.45
Lake or Reservoira 0.5615 0.4972 0 1
Estuarya 0.4385 0.4972 0 1
Waterbody sizeb (sq. km.) 6.8846 5.3156 0.0002 20.8858
Median income (thousands, 2017$) 59.078 14.144 37.865 91.174
College degree (% population) 0.1366 0.0414 0.0768 0.2734
Population density (households /sq. km.) 49.91 58.38 1.41 227.96
Mean house price (thousands, nominal $) 211.314 131.341 31.287 675.364
Northeasta 0.2885 0.4539 0 1
Midwesta 0.1923 0.3949 0 1
Southa 0.4846 0.5007 0 1
Westa 0.0346 0.1832 0 1
Methodological variables:
Elasticity variance 1228.159 18704.52 9.03E-06 301448.5
Unpublisheda 0.1500 0.3578 0 1
Not in-situ measurea 0.6115 0.4883 0 1
Other water quality variablesa 0.2192 0.4145 0 1
Assessed valuesa 0.0538 0.2261 0 1
Study time period (years) 10.27 3.82 3 24
Time trend (0=1994 to 20=2014) 8.59 6.17 0 20
No spatial methodsa 0.3808 0.4865 0 1
Double-loga 0.4308 0.4961 0 1
Linear-loga 0.3077 0.4624 0 1
Lineara 0.0385 0.1927 0 1
Log-lineara 0.2231 0.4171 0 1

Unweighted descriptive statistics presented for n=260 elasticity estimates in meta-dataset pertaining to water clarity. Estimates based on 18 primary hedonic studies, corresponding to 66 study-housing market clusters.

(a)

Denotes independent variables that are dummy variables.

(b)

The size of the waterbody (or waterbodies) examined in the primary studies was only available for n=79 of the 260 observations in the meta-dataset pertaining to water clarity. If multiple waterbodies were examined in the primary study hedonic regression models, then the average waterbody size is reported.