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Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires

Gasparini, Leonardo et al · SEDICI UNLP · 2004

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La gran mayoría de los estudios del ingreso no toman en cuenta la renta implícita que obtienen los hogares que viven en una casa propia. Esta omisión puede introducir un potencial sesgo de gran magnitud en medidas de desigualdad, pobreza y bienestar. En este trabajo, se estima el valor de esta renta implícita para el Gran Buenos Aires utilizando información de la Encuesta Nacional de Gastos de los Hogares (ENGH) de 1996-97. En base a una muestra de hogares que alquilan sus viviendas, se estiman regresiones por cuantiles para estimar un modelo hedónico. Los coeficientes de esta regresión se aplican para estimar el valor que pagarían los hogares que no alquilan para predecir la renta implícita de cada hogar. Este valor se agrega a la noción estándar de ingreso familiar y se reestiman varias medidas de desigualdad. Se encuentra que la consideración de la renta implícita reduce la desigualdad dado que la elasticidad de gasto en vivienda es menor a uno, y por la proporción relativamente alta de propietarios en la cola inferior de la distribución. Most income studies do not take into account the implicit rent obtained by households who inhabit their own dwellings, a fact that introduces a potentially relevant bias in inequality, poverty, and welfare measures. In this paper we estimate these implicit rents for the Greater Buenos Aires area from information of Argentina?s National Household Expenditures Survey (ENGH) of 1996/7. Based on a sample of households that rent their dwellings, quantile regressions are used to estimate observed rents from a hedonic model. Estimated coefficients are applied to households that do not rent their houses or apartments in order to predict the implicit rent derived from living in an owned house. Estimated implicit rents are added to the standard notion of household income and various inequality measures are reestimated. We find that the consideration of these implicit rents reduces inequality due to an income elasticity of spending in housing less than one, and to the relatively large proportion of house owners in the lower strata of the income distribution. Trabajo publicado en el <i>Journal of Income Distribution</i>, 12 (1-2): 32-55.

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Gasparini, L. E. A. (2004). Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires. http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3576

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Gasparini, Leonardo et al. "Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires." 2004. http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3576.

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Gasparini, Leonardo et al. 2004. "Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires.". http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3576.

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Gasparini, L. E. A. 2004, Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires, SEDICI UNLP, available at: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3576 [Accessed 9 Aug. 2026].

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Title
Implicit rents from own-housing and income distribution: econometric estimates for Greater Buenos Aires
Author / contributors
Gasparini, Leonardo et al
Publisher
SEDICI UNLP
Publication year
2004
Language
English

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