Arbeitspapier

Estimating the peace dividend: The impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace process in Northern Ireland on house prices. We begin with a linear model that estimates the average treatment effect of a conflict-related killing on house prices .showing a negative correlation between house prices and killings. We then develop an approach based on an economic model where the parameters of the statistical process are estimated for a Markov switching model where conflict and peace are treated as a latent state. From this, we are able to construct a measure of the discounted number of killings which is updated in the light of actual killings. This model naturally suggests a heterogeneous effect of killings across space and time which we use to generate estimates of the peace dividend. The economic model suggests a somewhat different pattern of estimates to the linear model. We also show that there is some evidence of spillover effects of violence in adjacent regions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. 09,18

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Bürgerkrieg
Frieden
Immobilienpreis
Nordirland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Besley, Tim
Mueller, Hannes
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
(where)
London
(when)
2009

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Besley, Tim
  • Mueller, Hannes
  • Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

Time of origin

  • 2009

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