Revista: | Journal of applied economics |
Base de datos: | CLASE |
Número de sistema: | 000430455 |
ISSN: | 1667-6726 |
Autores: | Larsen, Erling Roed1 |
Instituciones: | 1BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo. Noruega |
Año: | 2014 |
Periodo: | Nov |
Volumen: | 17 |
Número: | 2 |
Paginación: | 325-352 |
País: | Argentina |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
Enfoque: | Aplicado |
Resumen en inglés | Housing is a major component of aggregate demand, and understanding how the demand for housing co-varies with income is useful for analysis and policy. While estimating housing consumption for tenants amounts to observing rents, estimating housing consumption for owner-occupiers is challenging because it is not directly observable and interest payments vary with re-paid principals. In order to examine the housing consumption for owneroccupiers, this article combines micro data sets on income and imputed rents for owneroccupiers based on home attributes from a consumer expenditure survey and monthly rents in a rental survey. This allows estimation of an Engel curve of owner-occupied consumption, both parametrically and non-parametrically. Regression results demonstrate that the income share of owner-occupied housing consumption decreases with income, while the Engel elasticity computed at the mean is 0.32 and increasing in income |
Disciplinas: | Economía |
Palabras clave: | Condiciones económicas, Economía de servicios, Teorías económicas, Vivienda, Curva de Engel, Arrendamiento, Propietarios |
Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |