The traditional subsidy program benefit measurement techniques for a
composite commodity ("housing services") model are reviewed and extended
for use in the increasingly popular hedonic price framework in which housing
is decomposed into a vector of characteristics, Since recent work has suggested
that observed hedonic prices may not reflect market phenomena, a generalized
approach is suggested which uses housing characteristics but is free of hedonic
prices.
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