The Engel Curve of Owner-Occupied Housing Consumption
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The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235; and Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, and Visiting Senior Scholar, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Blithewood, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504. Earlier versions of some of the material in this paper were presented at conferences at Lehigh University, Stanfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1514-0326,1667-6726
DOI: 10.1016/s1514-0326(14)60015-5