Larisa Fleishman

• Managing Director at Independent Researcher

Housing policy, as well as academic research, are increasingly concerned with the role of bias in subjective dwelling valuations as a proximate measure of households’ house price expectations and their relationship with housing demand. This paper contributes to this area of study by exploring the possibility of simultaneous relationships between ho...

The primary aim of this paper is to introduce valuation modeling applicable to thin housing markets, with a focus on the Arab housing sector in Israel. The estimation procedure utilizes two input values: transaction data and subjective valuations provided by property owners, the data for which are derived from the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) and the...

Owners’ valuations of dwelling prices are central in the construction of price indices and households’ economic behavior. We analyze the variation of the self-reported valuation bias over the distribution of dwelling sale prices, using a dataset of observations from a Household Expenditure Survey merged with the national sample of housing sale tran...

Purpose This paper, a pioneering one in the Israeli context, aims to augment the research literature on school quality and housing prices by examining the effect of primary-school performance on local property values. It focuses on the main question whether the release of students’ test scores offered households a new source of information with whi...

Mass appraisal valuation is increasingly based on multiple regression analysis in order to fit valuation statistical model for calculating market value of all properties in a target population. In this paper we develop and assess the predictive performance of different models for the estimation of dwelling values for all types of dwellings at a nat...

This paper aims to develop and test a valid and reliable methodology to explore residents' attitudes toward religious composition of their neighborhood, by integrating traditionally used survey data with administrative data, and collaborative Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. The main research question is whether residents perceive ch...

In order to characterize the socioeconomic profile of various geographic units, it is common practice to use aggregated indices. However, the process of calculating such indices requires a wide variety of variables from various data sources available concurrently. Using a number of administrative databases for 2001 and 2003, this study examines the...

Owners' valuations of dwelling prices are central in construction of price indices, empirical research of housing markets and households' economic behavior. Previous studies show that, on average, owners tend to overestimate the value of their dwellings by 5% relative to market valuation. We analyze the variation of the bias over the distribution o...

The main goal of this study is to validate the value of residential property as an indicator of socio-economic level of population in different geographical units, using socio-economic index (SEI) calculated by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The study also examines the effect of social and demographic components that are not included in SEI calc...

Due to the limitations of the carrying capacity approach a level of service approach is advanced for recreation planning in outdoor settings. This paper is the first to apply this approach to a concerete realworld setting, picnics in two forests in Israel. To this end a survey was conducted among visitors to the two forests. The survey serves to el...

The Green Line constituted the armistice line between Israel and Jordan during the period 1949–1967. This paper discusses the familiarity of Israeli students with the nature and geographical location of the Green Line by restructuring and analyzing their mental maps. The findings of this study show that students who are men, long-term residents, id...

Crowding in natural settings such as nature reserves may lead to both long-and short-term spatial and temporal behavioral adjustments. This study analyzes the short-term coping process as a function of the crowding disturbance in two popular nature reserves in Israel. Using binary and multinomial choice models, a direct robust connection between th...

Households may undertake housing changes and modifications (HCMs) for two basic reasons: increasing property value and gaining personal utility. In environmentally unfavorable or physically deteriorated neighborhoods, in which no substantial price gain can be expected, HCMs may be motivated mainly by improving personal utility, rather than by maxim...

The relationships among three groups of variables - environmental conditions in residential neighborhoods, post-occupancy housing changes and modifications (HCMs), and the market values of residential properties - are investigated. While traditional hedonic modeling assumes the existence of direct links between environmental factors and property va...

Crowding perceptions in natural settings, such as nature reserves, are an outcome of encounters between visitors to those settings. The implications of such encounters are mediated by the cultural diversity and demographic attributes of both parties to each encounter. This study explores the influence of visitors' cultural and demographic attribute...