Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and its Interaction with Public Policies

Natalia Garabato and Magdalena Ramada-Sarasola

No 4737, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based on Rosen’s (1974) two-step procedure consisting of fitting a hedonic price regression in 34 different geographical units (or markets) to estimate a housing demand function. The determinants of formality and ownership choices were examined using a multinomial logit framework. Determinants of these choices include both household demographic attributes and access to and use of public housing programs and other social programs. Policy recommendations are offered on the basis of the finding that a price and income-inelastic formal housing market greatly contrasts with a rather price and income-elastic informal housing market.

JEL-codes: G21 I38 O54 R21 R28 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-10
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