Testing Estimates of Housing Cost Differences among US Metropolitan Areas

Table 6

Predicting the proxy with controls and housing cost Measure A to Measure E, recent movers in large sample.

	Just controls	Measure A	Measure B	Measure C	Measure D	Measure E
Constant	3.800^*	3.910^*	3.806^*	3.544^*	4.003^*	4.017^*
	(0.296)	(0.275)	(0.274)	(0.235)	(0.210)	(0.284)
Housing cost measure		−0.783^*	−0.796^*	−0.812^*	−1.118^*	−0.804^*
		(0.144)	(0.145)	(0.080)	(0.085)	(0.179)
Average household income ($1,000s)	0.011^*	0.024^*	0.026^*	0.027^*	0.031^*	0.023^*
	(0.002)	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.003)
Average household size	0.447^*	0.410^*	0.410^*	0.495^*	0.294^*	0.393^*
	(0.109)	(0.101)	(0.101)	(0.086)	(0.078)	(0.104)
Proportion of population black	−0.316	−0.638^*	−0.649^*	−0.696^*	−0.504^*	−0.395^*
	(0.197)	(0.192)	(0.192)	(0.160)	(0.140)	(0.189)
Proportion of population Asian	−4.288^*	−3.136^*	−2.842^*	−1.253^*	−1.368^*	−3.448^*
	(0.493)	(0.503)	(0.525)	(0.489)	(0.413)	(0.498)
Proportion of population Hispanic	−1.833^*	−1.725^*	−1.633^*	−1.706^*	−1.215^*	−1.703^*
	(0.257)	(0.239)	(0.241)	(0.204)	(0.188)	(0.245)
Proportion of population immigrated in the last 10 years	−2.200^*	−1.723^*	−1.803^*	−2.178^*	−0.690	−1.401^*
	(0.716)	(0.669)	(0.665)	(0.565)	(0.518)	(0.701)
-squared	0.679	0.727	0.728	0.801	0.841	0.720
Standard error of estimate	0.240	0.222	0.222	0.189	0.169	0.226
Metropolitan areas in sample	177	177	177	177	177	177