Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
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description: As a society we have devoted much resources and effort to understand the different dimensions of housing and its effects on human life. The concern of housing as an important keystone of social life dates back to the very initial stages of the Neolithic revolution where nomads turned into sedentary tribes because they understood the importance of having a shelter, not only because it was the best way preserve life, but also because it provided social status and sense of belonging (Kerbo, 1999). Even in those times, housing was a defining factor when understanding differences in wellbeing among tribes. Today it is certainly true that we keep seeking the satisfaction of those very basic housing needs, and we keep facing similar challenges when comparing the access to housing across the different sectors of our society. Additionally, today we also face a modern world full of changes and complexities that have been translated the way we do research to explain the role of housing in our economic and social life. Inspired by this changing nature, I have explored how our understanding about certain housing issues changes depending on the context. In particular, I present three essays that provide a new perspective of well known housing issues such as the role of attributes on the demand for housing, the estimation of housing price indices, and the revealed preferences on residential mobility and location choice. In these three essays I provide new evidence by applying well-established methods to a different spatio-cultural context, more spatial-disaggregated units, and specific constrained situations respectively. All together, the evidence presented here highlights how our understanding of the aforementioned housing issues changes contingent to the current context. In chapter one, I estimate the demand for housing attributes using the case of Chile –a developing economy in South America. This chapter provides evidence about the role housing attributes play on the demand f…
abstract: As a society we have devoted much resources and effort to understand the different dimensions of housing and its effects on human life. The concern of housing as an important keystone of social life dates back to the very initial stages of the Neolithic revolution where nomads turned into sedentary tribes because they understood the importance of having a shelter, not only because it was the best way preserve life, but also because it provided social status and sense of belonging (Kerbo, 1999). Even in those times, housing was a defining factor when understanding differences in wellbeing among tribes. Today it is certainly true that we keep seeking the satisfaction of those very basic housing needs, and we keep facing similar challenges when comparing the access to housing across the different sectors of our society. Additionally, today we also face a modern world full of changes and complexities that have been translated the way we do research to explain the role of housing in our economic and social life. Inspired by this changing nature, I have explored how our understanding about certain housing issues changes depending on the context. In particular, I present three essays that provide a new perspective of well known housing issues such as the role of attributes on the demand for housing, the estimation of housing price indices, and the revealed preferences on residential mobility and location choice. In these three essays I provide new evidence by applying well-established methods to a different spatio-cultural context, more spatial-disaggregated units, and specific constrained situations respectively. All together, the evidence presented here highlights how our understanding of the aforementioned housing issues changes contingent to the current context. In chapter one, I estimate the demand for housing attributes using the case of Chile –a developing economy in South America. This chapter provides evidence about the role housing attributes play on the demand f…
author: Lopez Ochoa, Esteban Alejandro
language: en
keywords: Housing, Housing Price Indices, Small Metro Areas, Chile, Housing Demand, Housing Choices
date published: 2017-03-01T17:01:02Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:37Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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