means.def cityid 1-10 cityname 13-52 d 53-58 izlaw 60-65 izlaw_d 67-72 izyear 75-80 avgprice 83-92 lnprice 95-115 units 120-130 lnunits 140-150 hhlds 165-176 lnhhlds 180-200 pop 205-215 lpop 230-250 density 260-280 medhhinc 290-300 lmedhhinc 310-330 educattain 340-360 proppoverty 370-390 meantttw 400-420 prop65 430-450 dlnprice 460-480 dlnunits 490-510 dlmedhhinc 520-540 ddensity 550-570 deducattain 680-700 dproppoverty 710-730 dmeantttw 740-760 dprop65 770-780 dpop 790-810 dlpop 820-840 Obs: 311 cities for 2 years 622 cityid city id cityname city name d 1 for year 2000 izlaw iz law passed 1986-1995 izlaw_d izlaw*d interaction izyear year city passed policy avgprice average home price lnprice log(avgprice) units # of units lnunits log(units) hhlds # of households lnhhlds log(hhlds) pop population in 1000s lpop log(pop) density people/acre medhhinc median household income lmedhhinc log(medhhinc) educattain proportion w/college degree proppoverty proportion below poverty level meantttw mean travel time to work prop65 proportion > age 65 dlnprice lnprice[2000]-lnprice[1990] dlnunits lnunits[2000]-lnunits[1990] dlmedhhinc lnmedhhinc[2000]-lnmedhhinc[1990] ddensity density[2000]-density[1990] deducattain educattain[2000]-educattain[1990] dproppoverty proppoverty[2000]-proppoverty[1990] dmeantttw meantttw[2000]-meantttw[1990] dprop65 prop65[2000]-prop65[1990] dpop pop[2000]-pop[1990] dlpop lpop[2000]-lpop[1990] Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- cityid | 622 643564.8 24758.99 600296 687042 cityname | 0 d | 622 .5 .5004024 0 1 izlaw | 622 .1061093 .3082254 0 1 izlaw_d | 622 .0530547 .2243229 0 1 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- izyear | 100 1994 4.64062 1986 2003 avgprice | 622 244096.2 188632.6 49151 2253218 lnprice | 622 12.22153 .5747269 10.80265 14.62787 units | 622 27091.44 83673.85 1468 1337668 lnunits | 622 9.530669 .9673002 7.291656 14.10644 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- hhlds | 622 25728.2 79320.36 1408 1276609 lnhhlds | 622 9.474429 .9725172 7.249926 14.05972 pop | 622 74.86069 226.1905 4.499 3694.834 lpop | 622 3.654345 .9573289 1.503855 8.214691 density | 622 7.444147 5.962402 .2222599 37.32389 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- medhhinc | 622 46208.1 19520.91 16888 193157 lmedhhinc | 622 10.66869 .3692653 9.734359 12.17126 educattain | 622 .2016863 .1520974 .0033831 .7784514 proppoverty | 622 .1151569 .0711162 .0099768 .3992895 meantttw | 622 25.55441 5.044765 11.69704 43.69799 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- prop65 | 622 .1095674 .0551502 .0298894 .5664434 dlnprice | 311 .2558305 .2728853 -.6968927 1.661104 dlnunits | 311 .1239177 .1987338 -.731493 1.452658 dlmedhhinc | 311 .2923853 .1009969 .0254517 .5723829 ddensity | 311 .8256387 1.005061 -6.195725 4.983041 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- deducattain | 311 .1092033 .0708644 -.0116293 .3092856 dproppoverty | 311 .0170168 .0247012 -.070595 .1630218 dmeantttw | 311 3.007186 2.599436 -3.656197 26.72733 dprop65 | 311 .0057785 .0209855 -.0850816 .0688678 dpop | 311 9684.64 18441.13 -28688 209436 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- dlpop | 311 .171527 .2235745 -.7308068 1.664763 Source: The authors thank Tom Means for the data and his assitance.