Table 2 Empirical results on sales price of apartments neighboring a building which was abandoned and selected for a maintenance project

Policy effect Placebo test
(1) (2) (3)
Treat -14.817**(-6.32) -14.008*(-2.36) -15.924**(-2.66) -32.439**(-4.74)
Post 68.280**(19.43) 64.610**(19.25) 64.757**(19.21) 7.887*(2.09)
Treat × Post 5.260(1.47) 8.965**(2.60) 9.868**(2.86) 6.937(1.64)
Exclusive area -0.029(-0.30) -0.057(-0.58) 0.439**(3.39)
Floor 2.301**(9.37) 2.319**(9.34) 2.013**(7.16)
Transaction year
2018 -47.477**(-13.67) -49.075**(-14.62) -49.168**(-14.41)
2019 -61.540**(-22.02) -62.495**(-23.80) -63.428**(-23.72)
Constant 353.453**(169.85) 341.908**(32.50) 343.814**(31.26) 296.368**(23.14)
Fixed effect
Month of transaction - - 12 12
Number of observations 894 894 894 584
Adjusted R-squared 0.5260 0.5733 0.5743 0.6587
Note: Numbers in parentheses are White-Huber’s robust t-values.
indicate statistical significance at 1%, 5%, and 10%, respectively.
The last column is for a placebo test where the data are limited to the transactions in 2010 and 2011, and “Post” indicates 2011.