Testing Estimates of Housing Cost Differences among US Metropolitan Areas

Table 4

Predicting the proxy with controls and Measure A to Measure F, ACCRA sample.

	Just controls	Measure A	Measure B	Measure C	Measure D	Measure E	Measure F
Constant	3.204^*	3.204^*	3.228^*	3.363^*	3.301^*	3.202^*	3.202^*
	(0.414)	(0.417)	(0.414)	(0.415)	(0.380)	(0.422)	(0.420)
Housing cost measure		−0.004	−0.269	−0.377	−0.879^*	0.008	0.004
		(0.233)	(0.238)	(0.190)	(0.216)	(0.369)	(0.162)
Average household income ($1,000s)	0.024^*	0.024^*	0.029^*	0.027^*	0.040^*	0.024^*	0.024^*
	(0.004)	(0.006)	(0.006)	(0.004)	(0.005)	(0.007)	(0.004)
Average household size	0.553^*	0.553^*	0.524^*	0.544^*	0.400^*	0.554^*	0.553^*
	(0.121)	(0.124)	(0.124)	(0.119)	(0.117)	(0.124)	(0.122)
Proportion of population black	−0.299	−0.300	−0.372	−0.333	−0.227	−0.299	−0.298
	(0.237)	(0.245)	(0.246)	(0.234)	(0.218)	(0.239)	(0.239)
Proportion of population Asian	−7.252^*	−7.244^*	−6.446^*	−5.273^*	−4.042^*	−7.262^*	−7.278^*
	(1.291)	(1.397)	(1.473)	(1.613)	(1.420)	(1.395)	(1.684)
Proportion of population Hispanic	−1.156^*	−1.155^*	−1.069^*	−1.187^*	−0.774^*	−1.157^*	−1.156^*
	(0.269)	(0.273)	(0.280)	(0.265)	(0.264)	(0.279)	(0.271)
Proportion of population immigrated in the last 10 years	−5.413^*	−5.410^*	−5.352^*	−5.115^*	−3.082^*	−5.420^*	−5.410^*
	(1.188)	(1.214)	(1.187)	(1.176)	(1.228)	(1.246)	(1.204)
-squared	0.789	0.789	0.792	0.799	0.825	0.789	0.789
Standard error of estimate	0.195	0.196	0.195	0.191	0.178	0.196	0.196
Metropolitan areas in sample	87	87	87	87	87	87	87