Edwige Tia - PhD Defence - June 19th 10am

Posted on Monday, May 29, 2023

Interested Members of the University Community are Invited to Attend the Final Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of:

 Edwige Tia  of the Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics

on Monday, June 19th, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. in JD Maclachlan 310 – FARE Lab

 

Urban Containment Policies and Property Values:

Essays on the impact of the Greenbelt Act on Housing and Farmland values in the Rural-Urban Fringes of the Greater Toronto Area

Examination Committee:

 Thesis Committee:

Alfons Weersink – Examination Chair

Sathya Gopalakrishnan – External Examiner

Brady Deaton – Advisory Committee

Getu Hailu – Advisory Committee

Yu Na Lee – Internal-External

   Brady Deaton – Advisor

   Getu Hailu – Advisory Committee 

  Chad Lawley – Advisory Committee

   Richard Vyn – Advisory Committee

ALL INTERESTED FACULTY & STUDENTS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

ABSTRACT

Urban Containment Policies and Property Values:

Essays on the impact of the Greenbelt Act on Housing and Farmland values in the Rural-Urban Fringes of the Greater Toronto Area

 

  1. Edwige Tia                                                                 Advisor: Dr. Brady J. Deaton

University of Guelph, 2023                                           Dept. Food, Agriculture, Resource Economics

This dissertation investigates the effect of Ontario’s Greenbelt Act– a policy which restricts the use of prime farmland for non-agricultural uses – on the property values in a near-urban geographical area referred to as the ‘Whitebelt’. In the first essay, I examine research surrounding Oregon Bill 100 – a prominent and longstanding growth control – to help identify important issues to be examined in Ontario. The second and third essays in this dissertation use two specific regression methods – difference-in-difference and regression discontinuity design – to assess the impact of the Greenbelt Act on Whitebelt residential and farmland properties. I find the price effects are statistically significant, but relatively small, and situated – as the theory I develop suggests – near the boundaries that demarcate the regions that differ with respect to land use policy.