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A New Approach to Measuring Intercity Differences in Housing Costs

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  • Hyung Joon Chung

    (George Washington University)

  • Nathaniel Harris

    (George Washington University)

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Intercity housing price indexes that rely on median house price or pooled hedonic regressions adjust imperfectly for differences in housing characteristics. In addition, intercity house price indexes that rely on asset value are a biased measure of differences in the rental price of housing, because capitalization rates vary dramatically across cities. To mitigate these shortcomings, we create Fisher Ideal intercity housing price indexes for both rental and asset prices using a two-way Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Our method improves upon current house price indexes by using rental rather than asset prices, controlling for location and housing characteristics, and allowing implicit prices to vary across locations.

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  • Hyung Joon Chung & Nathaniel Harris, 2021. "A New Approach to Measuring Intercity Differences in Housing Costs," Working Papers 2021-17, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
    • Handle: RePEc:gwi:wpaper:2021-17
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    1. Paul E. Carrillo & Anthony Yezer, 2021. "What Do Hedonic House Price Estimates Tell Us When Capitalization Rates Vary?," Working Papers 2021-03, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.

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    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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