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The Engel curve of owner-occupied housing consumption

Røed Larsen, Erling
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/277521
Date
2014
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Journal of Applied Economics, 17(2014)2: 325-352   10.1016/S1514-0326(14)60015-5
Abstract
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 owner-occupiers, this article combines micro data sets on income and imputed rents for owner-occupiers 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.
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This is the author's accepted and refereed manuscript to the article
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Elsevier
Journal
Journal of Applied Economics

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