Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 20088. Discrete choice models with random parameters are specified to capture unobserved preference heterogeneity.In practice, researchers have often found it necessary to include more than one observation for each individual in the sample to obtain precise estimates of unobserved deviations from mean tastes.In the case of a disaggregate model of the choice of residential location, that could be done by estimating a household's ranking of alternative residential locations.But such data are not publicly available, so it is likely that a researcher would have to conduct a new and expensive survey of residential location choices to obtain satisfactory estimates of preference heterogeneity.
Authors: Ashley Langer, Clifford Winston
Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Brookings Institution
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1546306072