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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Econ Inq. 2018 Dec 13;57(2):972–996. doi: 10.1111/ecin.12753

Table 2:

Regressions of Changes in Spending by Degree of House Price Decline Dependent variable: change in log spending

HomeOwn (i) Non-HomeOwn (ii) Always HO (iii) HomeOwn No Unemp (iv) Same State (v)
I(Recession=1) 0.063** (0.024) −0.006 (0.062) 0.040 (0.028) 0.068** (0.024) 0.060** (0.026)
I(Tercile=2) 0.053* (0.031) 0.086* (0.047) 0.045 (0.030) 0.051 (0.031) 0.045 (0.033)
I(Tercile=3) 0.014 (0.026) 0.166** (0.046) 0.039 (0.028) 0.012 (0.027) 0.025 (0.031)
I(Recession=1)×I(Tercile=2) −0.051* (0.026) 0.003 (0.056) −0.040 (0.030) −0.058** (0.027) −0.051* (0.029)
I(Recession=1)×I(Tercile=3) −0.104** (0.027) −0.038 (0.072) −0.098** (0.032) −0.103** (0.027) −0.114** (0.029)

Hypothesis Testing:

I(Recession=1)×I(Tercile=2)=I(Recession=1)×I(Tercile=3) F=4.89
p-val=0.03
F=0.32
p-val=0.58
F=4.75
p-val=0.03
F=3.53
p-val=0.07
F=5.40
p-val=0.03

N 9,122 2,036 7,980 8,994 7,997

States are grouped in terciles of the distribution of house price declines from 2007q4 to 2009q2 (1st tercile includes states with the smallest declines; 3rd tercile includes states with the largest declines). Standard errors clustered at the state level in parentheses. ***, ** and * indicate significance at the 1%, 5% and 10% level, respectively. Other regressors are a quadratic in age, education dummies, marital status, household size, health status, indicators for household income and wealth quartiles, indicators for labor force status, time fixed effects and tercile-specific time trends. Estimated coefficients for these variables are in Table B.1 in the Appendix.