Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing …

Micro data over the life cycle shows two different patterns of consumption of housing and non-housing goods: the … consumption profile of non-housing goods is hump-shaped while the consumption profile for housing first increases monotonically … the accumulation of housing assets early in life, while transaction costs are crucial in generating the slow downsizing of …