Evaluating the Accuracy of Homeowners' Self-Assessed Rent in Metropolitan Lima
Attributing a rental value to homeowners' dwellings is essential in different contexts, including poverty and inequality analysis, the compilation of national accounts, consumer price indexes, and estimation of purchasing power parity indexes....
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/287901565890099664/Evaluating-the-Accuracy-of-Homeowners-Self-Assessed-Rent-in-Metropolitan-Lima http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32276 |
| Summary: | Attributing a rental value to
homeowners' dwellings is essential in different
contexts, including poverty and inequality analysis, the
compilation of national accounts, consumer price indexes,
and estimation of purchasing power parity indexes. The
proposed solution is often to use homeowners' estimates
of the market rent they would pay for their dwelling if they
were renting it, which is usually referred to as
homeowners' self-assessed rent. Lack of alternative
surveys and up-to-date and complete administrative data
about dwellings' market values typically bounds
researchers to test the accuracy of homeowners'
self-assessed rent using only information from household
budget surveys. Using 13 years of the Peruvian household
budget survey, this paper compares two methods to assess the
accuracy of homeowners' self-assessed rent and finds
that the average homeowner in Lima overestimates the market
rent of her dwelling by between 8 and 15 percent. However,
homeowners' self-assessment inaccuracy fades away in
most years when homeowners are compared with their most
observationally similar tenants. |
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