Estimating Housing Demand With an Application to Explaining Racial Segregation in Cities
住房需求估计及其解释城市种族居住隔离的应用
We present a three-stage, nonparametric estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage we estimate a nonparametric hedonic home price function. In the second stage we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first-order conditions for utility maximization. Finally, in the third stage we estimate the distribution of household tastes as a function of household demographics. As an application of…