Testing Estimates of Housing Cost Differences among US Metropolitan Areas

Table 3

Predicting the proxy with controls and Measure A to Measure E, large sample.

	Just controls	Measure A	Measure B	Measure C	Measure D	Measure E
Constant	3.595^*	3.753^*	3.685^*	3.509^*	4.008^*	3.765^*
	(0.290)	(0.289)	(0.283)	(0.243)	(0.264)	(0.298)
Housing cost measure		−0.453^*	−0.550^*	−0.760^*	−0.833^*	−0.477^*
		(0.154)	(0.162)	(0.088)	(0.120)	(0.190)
Average household income ($1,000s)	0.013^*	0.019^*	0.022^*	0.026^*	0.025^*	0.019^*
	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.003)
Average household size	0.617^*	0.570^*	0.563^*	0.606^*	0.434^*	0.575^*
	(0.106)	(0.105)	(0.104)	(0.088)	(0.097)	(0.107)
Proportion of population black	−0.446^*	−0.606^*	−0.645^*	−0.712^*	−0.497^*	−0.472^*
	(0.190)	(0.193)	(0.193)	(0.161)	(0.168)	(0.189)
Proportion of population Asian	−2.835^*	−2.379^*	−2.158^*	−0.696	−1.367^*	−2.512^*
	(0.363)	(0.387)	(0.404)	(0.391)	(0.385)	(0.379)
Proportion of population Hispanic	−1.601^*	−1.586^*	−1.499^*	−1.550^*	−1.325^*	−1.569^*
	(0.243)	(0.238)	(0.238)	(0.203)	(0.219)	(0.241)
Proportion of population immigrated in the last 10 years	−5.764^*	−4.883^*	−4.903^*	−4.629^*	−2.562^*	−4.844^*
	(0.869)	(0.901)	(0.880)	(0.737)	(0.897)	(0.935)
-squared	0.741	0.753	0.757	0.820	0.798	0.749
Standard error of estimate	0.227	0.222	0.220	0.189	0.201	0.224
Metropolitan areas in sample	177	177	177	177	177	177