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- Title
Rent-Imputation for Welfare Measurement: A Review of Methodologies and Empirical Findings.
- Authors
Balcázar, Carlos Felipe; Ceriani, Lidia; Olivieri, Sergio; Ranzani, Marco
- Abstract
Housing should always be included in the construction of the welfare aggregate for welfare analysis. However, assigning a value to the flow of services from dwellings is problematic. Many households own the dwelling in which they live, making this value unobserved; others receive free housing or face prices lower than those at the market. Over the last decades, several estimation techniques have been proposed and implemented by practitioners to overcome this issue. This paper provides a review of methods commonly used to impute rent and discusses the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. We find no consensus on which imputation method is the most appropriate for welfare analysis, as well as a lack of evidence regarding the distributional impact of including rents in the welfare aggregate, particularly in developing countries. Moreover, practices for imputing rents vary across countries, calling for the future development of a unified framework.
- Subjects
PUBLIC welfare; DEVELOPING countries; HOUSING; POVERTY statistics; EQUALITY
- Publication
Review of Income & Wealth, 2017, Vol 63, Issue 4, p881
- ISSN
0034-6586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/roiw.12312