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Working Papers

2012

1. This paper documents the production of a panel of price indices for housing services, other produced goods, and all produced goods for each metropolitan area in the United States and the non-metropolitan part of each state from 1982 through 2010 that can be used for estimating behavioral relationships, studying the workings of markets, and assessing differences in the economic circumstances of people living in different areas. The panel will be extended each year beyond 2010. Our general approach is to first produce cross-sectional price indices for a single year 2000 and then use BLS time-series price indices to create the panel. Our geographic housing price index for 2000 is based on a large data set with detailed information about the characteristics of dwelling units and their neighborhoods throughout the United States that enables us to overcome many shortcomings of existing interarea housing price indices. For most areas, our price index for all goods other than housing is calculated from the price indices for categories of non-housing goods produced each quarter by the Council for Community and Economic Research. In order to produce a non-housing price index for areas of the United States not covered by their index, we estimate a theoretically-based regression model explaining differences in the composite price index for non-housing goods for areas where it is available and use it to predict a price of other goods for the uncovered areas. The overall consumer price index for all areas is based on the preceding estimates of the price of housing and other goods. The paper discusses existing interarea price indices available to researchers, compares the new housing price index with housing price indices based on alternative methods using the same data and price indices based on alternative data sets, and illustrates the use of the price indices by estimating housing demand functions. Electronic versions of the price indices are available online
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics

2011

2. The Effect on Program Participation of Replacing Current Low-Income Housing Programs with an Entitlement Housing Voucher Program
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics

2010

3. A Panel of Price Indices for Housing, Other Goods, and All Goods for All Areas in the United States 1982-2008
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics View citations (11)

2001

4. Are Section 8 Housing Subsidies Too High?
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Are Section 8 housing subsidies too high?, Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier (2002) View citations (6) (2002)
5. Housing Programs for Low-Income Households
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)
   See also Chapter Housing Programs for Low-Income Households, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations (92) (2003)
6. Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter (2002) View citations (20) (2002)

2000

7. The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Methods of Delivering Housing Subsidies
   Virginia Economics Online Papers, University of Virginia, Department of Economics View citations (20)

1987

8. Composite commodity theorems and the benefits of government programs
   SESO Working Papers, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics

Journal Articles

2019

1. Racial rent differences in U.S. housing markets: Evidence from the housing voucher program
   Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 59, (4), 669-700 View citations (3)

2014

2. A panel of interarea price indices for all areas in the United States 1982–2012
   Journal of Housing Economics, 2014, 26, (C), 81-93 View citations (12)

2007

3. A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy., Green, Richard K., Malpezzi, Stephen. 2003. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37, (5), 618-624 View citations (1)

2003

4. Comment on Jill Khadduri's “should the housing voucher program become a state‐administered block grant?”
   Housing Policy Debate, 2003, 14, (3), 283-293

2002

5. Are Section 8 housing subsidies too high?
   Journal of Housing Economics, 2002, 11, (3), 214-243 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Are Section 8 Housing Subsidies Too High?, Virginia Economics Online Papers (2001) View citations (2) (2001)
6. Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census
   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002, 2, (1), 1-36 View citations (20)
   See also Working Paper Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census, Virginia Economics Online Papers (2001) (2001)

1998

7. Rent control and homelessness
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1998, 28, (6), 797-816 View citations (20)

1991

8. The welfare economics of equal access
   Journal of Public Economics, 1991, 45, (1), 91-105 View citations (8)

1983

9. The benefits and costs of public housing in New York City
   Journal of Public Economics, 1983, 20, (3), 299-332 View citations (48)

1981

10. Does HUD Pay Too Much for Section 8 Existing Housing?
    Land Economics, 1981, 57, (2), 243-251 View citations (1)

1980

11. Pareto-Desirable Redistribution in Kind: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (5), 1028-31 View citations (10)

1972

12. An Econometric Analysis of Rent Control
    Journal of Political Economy, 1972, 80, (6), 1081-1100 View citations (75)

1971

13. Some Theorems in the Theory of Efficient Transfers
    Journal of Political Economy, 1971, 79, (1), 166-76 View citations (10)
14. Subsidized Housing in a Competitive Market: Reply
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (1), 220-24 View citations (7)

1969

15. A Competitive Theory of the Housing Market
    American Economic Review, 1969, 59, (4), 612-22 View citations (44)
16. A normative theory of transfers
    Public Choice, 1969, 6, (1), 39-58 View citations (10)

Chapters

2015

1. US Housing Policy
   Elsevier View citations (15)

2011

2. Public Economics
   Chapter 63 in International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, 2011

2003

3. Housing Programs for Low-Income Households
   A chapter in Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, 2003, pp 365-442 View citations (92)
   See also Working Paper Housing Programs for Low-Income Households, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2001) View citations (16) (2001)

1987

4. The demand and supply of housing service: A critical survey of the empirical literature
   Chapter 25 in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, 1987, vol. 2, pp 989-1022 View citations (58)

1984

5. The Effect of Different Measures of Benefit on Estimates of the Distributive Consequences of Government Programs
   A chapter in Economic Transfers in the United States, 1984, pp 177-198 View citations (4)

1977

6. The Distribution of Benefits from Public Housing
   A chapter in The Distribution of Economic Well-Being, 1977, pp 51-70 View citations (12)