Noise Impacts on Learning

• Bronzaft, A.L. The effect of noise abatement program on reading ability. J. Environ. Psych. 1:215-222 (1981).

• _____. Top of the Class. Norwood, NJ: Ablex (1996).

• _____. Beware: Noise is hazardous to our children's development. Hearing Rehabil. Qtly. 22:4-13 (1997).

• Bronzaft, A.; and D. McCarthy. Effect of elevated train noise on reading ability. Environ. Beh., 7(4):517-527 (December 1975).

• Cohen, H. Harvey; Donald W. Conrad; John F. O'Brien; and Richard G. Pearson. Effects of Noise Upon Human Information Processing. NASA CR-132469, NGL 34-002-055 (June 1974).

• Cohen, S.; D.C. Glass; and J.D. Singer. Apartment noise, auditory discrimination, and reading ability in children. J. Exper. Soc. Psych. 9:407-422 (1973).

• Cohen, S.; D.S. Krantz; G.W. Evans; and D. Stokols. Community noise and children: Cognitive motivational and physiological effects. Proceedings Third International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, American Speech Language Hearing Assoc. Report 10 (April 1980).

• _____. Physiological, motivational, and cognitive effects of aircraft noise on children. Amer. Psychol. 35(3):231-243 (1980).

• _____; and S. Kelly. Aircraft noise and children: Longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence on adaptation to noise and the effectiveness of noise abatement. J. Personality Soc. Pyschol. 40:331-345 (1981).

• Davies, D.R.; and G.R.J. Hockey. Effects of noise and doubling the signal frequency on individual differences in visual vigilance performance. Brit. J. Psychol., 57:381-389 (1966).

• Deutsch, C.P. Auditory discrimination and learning: social factors. Merrill-Palmer Qtly. 10:277-296 (1964).

• Discipio, W.J. Psychomotor performance as a function of white noise and personality variables." Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol. 33, p. 82 (1971).

• Evans, Gary W.; Monika Bullinger; and Staffan Hygge. Chronic noise exposure and psychological response: a prospective study on children living under environmental stress. Pyschol. Sci. 9(1):75-77 (1998).

• Evans, Gary W.; and S.J. Lepore. Nonauditory effects of noise on children: A critical review. Children's Environ. 10:31-51 (1993).

• Evans, Gary W.; and L. Maxwell. Chronic noise exposure and reading deficits. Environ. Beh. 29:638-656 (1997).

• Green, K.B.; B.S. Pasternack; and R.E. Shore. Effects of aircraft noise on reading ability of school age children. Arch. Environ. Health 37:24-31 (1982).

• Haines, M.; S.A. Stansfeld, R.F.S. Job, and B. Berglund. Chronic aircraft noise exposure and child cognitive performance and stress. In Noise as a Public Health Problem, N.L. Carter and R.F.S. Job, eds., vol. 1, pp. 329-336, Noise Effects '98 Conference, Sydney, Aus. (1998).

• Hambrick-Dixon, P.J. Effects of experimentally imposed noise on task performance of Black children attending day care center near elevated subway trains. Dev. Psych. 22:259-264 (1985).

• Houtgast, T. The effect of ambient noise on speech intelligibility in classrooms. Appl. Acoustics 14:15-25 (1981).

• Hygge, Staffan. Effects of different noise sources and noise levels on long-term memory in children aged 12-14. In Contributions to Pyschological Acoustics: Results of the 7th Oldenburg Symposium on Psychological Acoustics, Oldenburg, Germany: BIS (1997).

• Hygge, Staffan; G.W. Evans, and M. Bullinger. The Munich airport noise study: Cognitive effects on children from before to after the changeover of airports. In Noise Control -- The Next 25 Years (Inter Noise 96 Conference), F.A. Hill and R. Lawrence, eds., vol. 5, pp. 2189-2192, St. Albans, UK: Institute of Acoustics (1996).

• _____. A prospective study of some effects of aircraft noise on cognitive performance in schoolchildren. Psychol. Sci. 13(5):____ (2002).

• Kahneman, D. Attention and Effort, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall (1973).

• Karsdorf, G.; and Klappach, H. Influence of traffic noise on the health and performance of secondary school students in a large city. Zeitschr. Gesamte Hygiene (1968).

• Lipscomb, D.M. Hearing Conservation in Industry, Schools, and the Military. San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing.

• Mills, J. H. Noise and children -- a review of literature. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 58(4):769-779 (October 1975).

• Stansfeld, S.A., et al. Aircraft and road traffic noise and children's cognition and health: A cross-national study. Lancet 365:1942-1949 (2005).

Airport Noise and Property Values

• Annual Housing Survey: 1975, Part B, Indicators of Housing and Neighborhood Quality. U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Series H-150-75B (1977).

• Bell, Randall. "Airport Diminution in Value." Report submitted to Orange County Board of Supervisors, Jan. 1997. See text of the report.

• Bell, Randall. "The Impact of Airport Noise on Residential Property Values." PriceWaterhouseCoopers (unpublished paper) (1999).

• Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Effect of Airport Noise on Housing Values: A Summary Report. (1994) (Prepared for the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Environment and Energy.)

• _____. Effect of Airport Noise on Housing Values: A Pilot Study at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. (1991).

• _____. Effect of Airport Noise on Housing Values: A Study at Los Angeles International Airport. (1991).

• _____. Effect of Airport Noise on Housing Values: A Pilot Study at New York Metropolitan Airports. (1993).

• Borins, Sandford F. Meiszkowski and Saper's estimate of the effects of airport noise on property value: a comment. J. Urban Econ. 9(1):125-128 (1981).

• California Real Estate Transfer Disclosures . When you sell real property in California you must disclose a variety of conditions, including airport noise, to the prospective buyer.

• Charles River Associates. Costs and Benefits to Communities of Aircraft Noise Abatement. (Draft final report 432) (1983).

• Carstensen, Fred; et al. Tweed-New Haven Airport: Master Plan Update, An Economic Evaluation -- Phase I. Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, University of Connecticut (Oct. 1999). [Includes analysis of 700 home sales between 1967 and 1999.]

• Conger, G. M. Noise damage. Appraisal J. (April 1968).

• Crowley, R. W. A case study of the effects of an airport on land values. J. Transp. Econ. Policy 7:144-152 (1973).

• DeVany, A. "An Economic Model of Airport Noise Pollution in an Urban Environment." In Theory and Measurement of Economic Externalities, S. Lin, ed. New York: Academic Press (1976).

• Dygert, P. K. Estimation of the Cost of Airport Noise to Residential Activities. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan (1973).

• Emerson, F. Valuation of residential amenities: An econometric approach. Appraisal J. 40(4):268-278 (1972).

• Espy, Molly; and Hilary Lopez. Impact of airport noise and proximity on residential property values. Growth and Change 31(3):408-419 (2000). (Study of Reno-Sparks airport.)

• Economic Impact of Vancouver International Airport. Ottawa: Transport Canada, TP 9820 (1989).

• Effects of Noise Barriers on the Market Value of Adjacent Residential Properties. McMaster University (QSEP Research Report No. 175) (1986).

• Feitelson, Eran I.; Robert E. Hurd, and Richard R. Mudge. The impact of airport noise on willingness to pay for residences. TR, 1(1):1-14 (Sept. 1197).

• Frankel, M. Aircraft noise and residential property values: Result of a survey study. Appraisal J. 59:96-110 (1991).

• Gautrin, J. An evaluation of the impact of aircraft noise on property values with a simple model of urban land rent. Land Econ. 51(2):80-86 (1975).

• Haar, C. M. Airport noise and the urban dweller: a proposed solution. Appraisal J. (Oct. 1968).

• Hall, T. H.; and W. Beaton. A factor formula for valuation of avigation easements. Appraisal J. (Jan. 1965).

• Hamilton, Stanley W.; and Uyeno, Dean. Impact of Aircraft Noise on Property Values. Transport Canada, Airside Capacity Environment Project (1990).

• _____. Effect of Airport Noise on Housing Prices in an Unstable Market. University of British Columbia, Center for Real Estate and Urban Land Economics (RULE), RULE Working Paper 91-ULE-010 (1991).

• Helmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc., et al. Sea-Tac International Airport Impact Mitigation Study: Initial Assessment and Recommendations. (Feb. 1997) (Prepared under a grant from the State of Washington administered by Washington State's Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development. Sections 9.01 - 9.07 discuss expected declines in land values and land use surrounding the airport, changes in home ownership tenure, and the resulting impact on residential tax revenues.

• Howard, J. H. Valuation of an avigation easement. Appraisal J. (July 1954).

• Impact of Airport Noise on Residential Property Values. Article includes links to the California statute authorizing avigation easements and a sample easement.

• Ingram, D. The effect of value on noise factors. Appraisal J. (July 1972).

• Jackson, R. Airport noise and congestion: a peak loan pricing solution. Applied Econ. 3(3):197-204 (1971).

• King, Richard L. Airport Noise Pollution: A Bibliography of Its Effects on People and Property. Scarecrow Press, 1973.

• Levesque, Terrence J. Modeling the effects of airport noise on residential housing markets: A case study of Winnipeg International Airport. J. Transport Economics and Policy 28(2):199-210 (1994).

• McDougall, G. S. An inquiry into the demand for aircraft noise abatement. Rev. Regional Studies, 6:59-69 (1976).

• McMillan, M. L.; B. G. Reid; and D. W. Gillen. An extension of the hedonic approach for estimating the value of quiet. Land Economics, 56:315-328 (1980).

• Mieszkowski, Peter; and Arthur M. Saper. An estimate of the effects of airport noise on property values. J. Urban Economics 5(4):425-440 (1978).

• Nelson, Jon P. Economic Analysis of Transportation Noise Abatement. Cambridge: Ballinger (1978).

• _____. Aircraft Noise and the Market for Residential Housing: Empirical Results for Seven Selected Airports. U.S. Department of Transportation (Report DOT-RSPA-DPB/50-78/24.) (1978).

• _____. Airport noise, location rent, and the market for residential amenities. J. Environ. Economics and Management, 6(4):320-331 (1979).

• _____. Airports and property values: a survey of recent evidence. J. Transp. Econ. Policy, 14(1):37-52 (1980).

• _____. "Measuring Benefits of Environmental Improvements: Aircraft Noise and Hedonic Prices." In Advances in Applied Microeconomics, vol. 1, V. K. Smith, ed. Greenwich: JAI Press (1981).

• _____. Meta-analysis of airport noise and hedonic property values: Problems and prospects. J. Transp. Econ. Policy, 38(1):1-27 (2004).

• Orange County Business Council. "The Impact of Airports on Residential Property Values." Irvine, CA (Feb. 2000).

• O'Byrne, Patricia H.; Jon P. Nelson; and Joseph J. Seneca. Housing values, census estimates, disequilibrium, and the environmental cost of airport noise: a case study of Atlanta. J. Environmental Economics and Management, 12(2):169-178 (19852).

• Pai, Inja K. "Effect of Aircraft Noise on the Value of Residential Property Near Three Selected Airports." Consortium of Universities, Urban Transportation Center, Washington, D.C. (June 1972).

• Pearce, D. W. "Noise Valuation." In The Valuation of Social Cost, D. W. Pearce, ed. London: George Allen & Unwin (1978).

• Pennington, G. N.; Topham; and R. Ward. Aircraft noise and residential property values adjacent to Manchester International Airport. J. Transport Economics and Policy, 24:49-59 (1990).

• Price, S. The Social Cost of Airport Noise as Measured by Rental Changes: The Case of Logan Airport. Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University (1974).

• Randall, W. Appraisal of damages caused by proximity to jet airport. Appraisal J. (Jan. 1954).

• Spaeth, R. L. Measuring the cost of airport noise: formulas and pitfalls. Appraisal J. (July 1972).

• Strunck, J. E. Avigational easements -- case studies. Appraisal J. (April 1963).

• Tomkins, J.; N. Topham, J. Twomey, and R. Ward. Noise versus access: The impact of an airport in an urban property market. Urban Studies 35(2):243-258. (Study of Manchester, England Airport.)

• Uyeno, Dean; Stanley Hamilton, and Andrew Biggs. Density of residential land use and the impact of airport noise. J. Transport Economics and Policy 27(1):3-18.

• Valuing the External Costs of Aviation. UK Department of Transport (2000). (Document is available on the Web at xxxx.)

• Van Praag, B.M.S.; and B. E. Baarsama. The Shadow Price of Aircraft Nuisance. Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands. (2000). (Document is available on the Web at Tinbergen Institute.)

• Walters, A. A. Noise and Prices. Oxford: Clarendon Press (1975).

• Walther, H. O. The impact of municipal airports on the market value of real estate in the adjacent areas. Appraisal J. (Jan. 1954).

• _____. Effect of jet airports on market value of vicinage real estate. Appraisal J. (Oct. 1959).

• West, R. J. Statistical inference: an avigation easement analysis. Real Estate Issues, 13(1):___ (Spring/summer 1988).