A central challenge in estimating models with heterogeneous housing is separating quality from price. We provide a new method for estimating hedonic functions for rental rates and housing values treating housing quality as unobserved by the econo- metrician. Our method also deals with the...

Research over the past several years has led to development of models characterizing equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. More recently, there have been a number of studies which have tried to estimate these models. The evidence suggests that simple parametric models can explain the...

Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality...

In this paper, we present a general equilibrium model of the market for higher education. Our model simultaneously predicts student selection into institutions, financial aid, and educational outcomes. We show that the model gives rise to a strict hierarchy of colleges that differ by the...

This paper provides a new estimation and solution method for a generalized class of sorting hedonic models based on discrete approximations of the distribution of housing quality. Our approach incorporates heterogeneity in preferences and treats quality as latent. Additionally, a housing market...

We extend the Laplace estimators approach proposed by Chernozhukov and Hong (2003) by incorporating information in the space of overidentifying re- strictions (OR) in GMM, information previously ignored during parameter es- timation in Bayesian methods. Parameters and test statistics are...

This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of nested models which differ by their degree...

In this paper, we derive nonparametric average difference estimators. We show that this estimator is consistent and root-$N$ asymptotically normally distributed. Furthermore, the average difference estimator converges to the well-known average derivative estimator as the increment used to...

We develop a demand model for goods that are subject to habit formation. We show that consumption plans of forward looking individuals depend on preferences, current period prices, and individual beliefs about the evolution of future prices. Moreover, an increase in price uncertainty reduces...

Dynamic discrete choice models are a well established and widely used methodology to study behavior of older individuals. A key aspect of the analysis is to characterize life expectancy and how it is affected by behavioral choices. Researchers, therefore, need to estimate conditional mortality...