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We begin with a description of three house price panel data sets for the period 1982 to 1991. Next, we estimate a model that assumes the three sources are derived from an underlying unobserved price series, and we construct composite indexes that report house prices for 135 locations. These...
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case, both the marginal value of characteristics and a fixed-weight price index can be estimated from a hedonic regression …. Using the marginal value of characteristics, we show how to construct bounds on the exact hedonic price index. When prices …
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staggering 55% per year (on average) over the first decade of the technology. By contrast, an hedonic-based index captures just a … small fraction of the decline, and a simple (unadjusted) price index shows a substantial price increase over the same period …
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Assessing neighborhood price indices in Los Angeles, we find that indices based on transactions prices are highly correlated with indices based on self-reported values, but the former are better correlated with public goods. Moreover, rental values have a higher correlation with public goods and...
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We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different...
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We present a three-stage estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage, we estimate a non-parametric hedonic home price function. Second, we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first order conditions for...
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We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is … hedonic index more accurately reflects how house prices have changed over time in eight major markets in China. Repeat sales … of the housing stock is relatively new and has not traded multiple times. A hedonic index shows much higher house price …
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This paper uses unique panel data covering over two million repeat-sales housing transactions from four metropolitan areas to test for the presence of racial price differentials in the housing market. Drawing on the strengths of these data, our research design controls carefully for unobserved...
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an open system of cities, compensating differentials theory predicts that local real estate prices will reflect the …
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data set of housing transactions in Southern California. The rank predictions of different models are robust with respect …
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