EFFECT OF BORROWING CONSTRAINTS ON LOCATION CHOICE: EVIDENCE FROM THE PARIS REGION

Sophie Dantan and Nathalie Picard

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Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of residential segregation in Paris region by disentangling households' preferences for local amenities, for dwelling type and for homeownership, in a nested logit model. This model is extended to account for unobservable borrowing constraints which might prevent some households from purchasing a dwelling. A counterfactual distribution of socio-demographic characteristics across the Paris region is then built by relaxing those constraints. The comparison of the actual and counterfactual distributions suggests that if their credit constraints were alleviated, households would tend to locate further from Paris. In particular if constraints were relaxed only on the poorest households, they would not be likely to mix with the richest households.

Keywords: Homeownership; Tenure choice; Borrowing constraints; Residential segregation; Suburbanization; Urban sprawl; Location choice model; Endogenous choice sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03-28
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