TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rosen,Harvey S.
TI  - Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 657
PY  - 1985
Y2  - May 1985
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0657
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0657.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Harvey S. Rosen
Department of Economics
Fisher Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1021
Tel: 609/258-4022
Fax: 609/258-6419
E-Mail: HSR@princeton.edu
M1  - published as Harvey S. Rosen. "Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned?," in Jerry A. Hausman and David A. Wise, eds., "Social Experimentation" University of Chicago Press (1985)

AB  - The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Experimental Housing Allowance Program (EHAP). My focus is on what the experimental data have taught us that could not have been learned from more traditional sources of information. I review the major problems that confronted investigators using non-experimental data, and for each problem discuss whether or not it was mitigated by the availability of EHAP data .I conclude that if the goal was to obtain improved estimates of the behavioral response to housing allowances, a social experiment was not necessary.
ER  -