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This paper measures and accounts for variations in housing-sector performance using the UNCHS and World Bank's Housing Indicators database of a diverse sample of 52 cities. The first stage of the empirical analysis, based on a principal components analysis, indicates that housing-sector...
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This paper estimates the demand functions for a set of housing attributes for the city of Ibadan, Nigeria, using Rosen's two-step estimation procedure. The empirical results reveal that the most important determinants of the demand for housing attributes are: income, price of the attribute in...
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This paper estimates housing tenure choice models for the Ibadan housing market in Nigeria. The empirical analysis based on a logit regression model reveals that the key determi- i-nants of the probability of home-ownership are: income, the investment motive for home-ownership, number of...
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There exists a dearth of empirical studies on what determines infrastructure spending in cities of developing countries. This in part can be attributed to the absence of quality data and the tendency for researchers to gloss over variations in infrastructure expenditure in or across developing...
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This paper presents estimates of the demand for a set of housing attributes using data drawn from the renter and owner occupier housing submarkets for Ibadan, Nigeria. The empirical analysis, based on an adaptation of Rosen's two-step model, reveals that the most important determinants of the...
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