Yannis M. Ioannides and Jeffrey E. Zabel, "Neighborhood effects and 
Housing Demand", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 18, No. 5, 2003,
pp. 563-584.

The data used in the article are from the American Housing Survey (AHS), 
National Version, 1985, 1989, and 1993.  

The sample selection rules are the following:

The sample data is based on owner-occupied houses (ten=1) in the 
cluster sub-sample (rurrec>=2), with occupied regular interview 
(istatus=1), in an smsa (smsa<9999), with owner-assessed value > $10,000.  
The number of houses in each cluster must be greater than 4 and less than 15.
To be in the sample the household must report positive income and must 
have non-missing values for other explanatory variables.  
This results in a sample of 7,174 observations.

The data file is an ASCII file (in DOS format) called neigh.data. There are
four lines for each observation. It is zipped in the file neighdata.zip.
Unix users should use "unzip -a".

The variables in the data file are (in order)

neigh         - neighborhood id
year          - survey year (1985, 1989, 1993)
lnhdem        - log of housing demand
lnhdemm       - cluster mean of lnhdem
d89           - dummy variable for 1989 
d93           - dummy variable for 1993
lnprice       - log of housing price
lnpincome     - permanent log income
highschool    - 1 if owner graduated from high school, 0 otherwise
changehand    - 1 if house changed hands in lst 5 years, 0 otherwise
white         - 1 if owner is white, 0 otherwise
npersons      - number of persons in household
married       - 1 if owner is married, 0 otherwise 
lnpincomem    - cluster mean of lnpincome
highschoolm   - cluster mean of hs
changehandm   - cluster mean of changehand
whitem        - cluster mean of white
npersonsm     - cluster mean of nperson
marriedm      - cluster mean of married
hagem         - cluster mean of the age of house is years
hage2m        - cluster mean of the asquare of the age of house is years
fullbathsm    - cluster mean of the number of full bathrooms
bedroomsm     - cluster mean of the number of bedrooms
garagem       - cluster mean of whether or not house has a garage

The definitions of the variables used to generate the sample can be 
found in the code-book for the AHS.

Please address any questions to:

Jeffrey Zabel
Department of Economics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155