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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Hdma: The Boston HDMA Data Set

Description

a cross-section from 1997-1998

number of observations : 2381

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Hdma)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
dir
debt payments to total income ratio
hir
housing expenses to income ratio
lvr
ratio of size of loan to assessed value of property
ccs
consumer credit score from 1 to 6 (a low value being a good score)
mcs
mortgage credit score from 1 to 4 (a low value being a good score)
pbcr
public bad credit record ?
dmi
denied mortgage insurance ?
self
self employed ?
single
is the applicant single ?
uria
1989 Massachusetts unemployment rate in the applicant's industry
comdominiom
is unit condominium ?
black
is the applicant black ?
deny
mortgage application denied ?

Source

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Munnell, Alicia H., Geoffrey M.B. Tootell, Lynne E. Browne and James McEneaney (1996) “Mortgage lending in Boston: Interpreting HDMA data”, American Economic Review, 25-53.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, http://wps.aw.com/aw_stockwatsn_economtrcs_1, chapter 9.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations