Author : Harvey S. Rosen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Housing Tenure, Uncertainty, and Taxation by : Harvey S. Rosen
Download or read book Housing Tenure, Uncertainty, and Taxation written by Harvey S. Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern empirical work on the choice between renting and owning focuses on the concept of the "user cost" of housing, which integrates into a single measure the various components of housing costs. The standard approach implicitly assumes that households know the user cost of housing with certainty. However, the ex post user cost measure exhibits substantial variability over time, and it is highly unlikely that individuals believe themselves able to forecast these fluctuations with certainty. In this paper, we construct and estimate a model of the tenure choice that explicitly allows for the effects of uncertainty. The results suggest that previous work which ignored uncertainty may have overstated the effects of the income tax system upon the tenure choice.