title: Housing land transaction data and structural econometric estimation of preference parameters for urban economic simulation models.
abstract: This paper describes a dataset of 6284 land transactions prices and plot surfaces in 3 medium-sized cities in France (Besançon, Dijon and Brest). The dataset includes road accessibility as obtained from a minimization algorithm, and the amount of green space available to households in the neighborhood of the transactions, as evaluated from a land cover dataset. Further to the data presentation, the paper describes how these variables can be used to estimate the non-observable parameters of a residential choice function explicitly derived from a microeconomic model. The estimates are used by Caruso et al. (2015) to run a calibrated microeconomic urban growth simulation model where households are assumed to trade-off accessibility and local green space amenities.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.affiliation: UMR 1041 CESAER-INRA Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cavailhès
authors.affiliation: CORE Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peeters
authors.affiliation: CORE Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; FRS-FNRS, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: UMR ThéMA, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Frankhauser
authors.affiliation: UMR ThéMA, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vuidel