Previous research [Verbrugge, Randal, 2008a. The puzzling divergence of aggregate rents and user costs, 1980-2004. The Review of Income and Wealth 54(4), 671-699] demonstrated that housing rents and ex ante user costs diverge markedly for extended periods of time, a finding with profound...

Research linking macro and micro statistics of dwelling services is in its infancy in the U.S. including work by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau. Comparisons of aggregated estimates generated from micro-level data to estimates at the macro-level...