Meta-analysis is applied to the negative relationship between airport noise exposure and residential property values …. The effect size in the analysis is the percent depreciation per decibel increase in airport noise, or the noise discount …. Twenty hedonic property value studies are analyzed, covering 33 estimates of the noise discount for 23 airports in Canada and …

We simultaneously analyze the effects of alternative noise sources to isolate their relative harms. This research adds … to the literature, which has only analyzed one noise source or has aggregated the noise levels of different sources …. Flight noise had the most negative effect on housing prices, and road and train noises had similar, but smaller effects …

levels. The outline of the paper is as follows. First, we combine a set of noise and air pollutants measured at a number of …