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Median Housing Price Of The Great Lake Megaregion

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Table 1 provides descriptive statistics of independent and dependent variables used in our analysis. Median housing price of the Great Lake Megaregion is $164,447 and its monthly growth rate is 0.31% during 2013 June through 2016 May. The average value of planning time index is 3.01 and its monthly growth rate is 1.34%. Interest rate and mortgage rate are 0.79% and 4.03%, respectively. The average construction price index obtained from Census is 112.46. The average unemployment rate is 5.64. The number of household and the number of firm at the zip code level is 8,581 and 726, respectively. And their vacant rates are 3.32% and 9.58%. The average percentages of park and lake are about 2%.

4.2. Estimation results of Housing Price Model

Table 2 presents estimation results of our empirical model represented by equation (5). The first column shows estimation results only including housing prices and traffic congestion index without other control variables. The result presents that traffic congestion growth is negatively associated with growth in median housing prices. Such results are slightly changed when including control variables or fixed-effects terms, but almost consistent and robust as shown in the model (2) through model (6). Since different locations and different time influence growth in housing prices (see Figure 5, again), model (6) that include locational and time fixed-effects is the best fit to explain the relationship between congestion growth and housing price

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