Plausibly Exogenous [1559] - Aircraft Noise (05/10/2024)

LHS Variable
Apartment rents

RHS Variable
Aircraft noise

Source of Exogenous Variation
In April 2003, the German government issued a binding decree that prohibited landings from the north in the early morning and the late evening to protect German communities located close to the Swiss border from “Swiss” aircraft noise. In May 2003, the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation allowed landings from the south, which had previously been prohibited. The new flight regime, enforced on October 30, 2003, stated that all aircraft landing in the early morning should approach from the south instead of from the north.

- Boes and Nuesch (2011), “Quasi-experimental evidence on the effect of aircraft noise on apartment rents”