RAPID: The Houston Region Foreclosure Study: A Panel Survey

这个项目研究了消费者对德克萨斯州休斯顿住房危机的看法。 重点是个人消费模式在引发危机中的作用以及政府政策的作用。 该项目使用小组研究来研究消费者的看法，政府政策和经济形势如何影响休斯顿的住房状况。 这些数据将使人们能够研究这些因素中的每一个的影响，并测试重要的消费经济理论，并帮助创建一个政治学文献，将政策制度与消费行为联系起来。这项小组研究的更广泛影响不仅集中在有助于基础研究的新数据上，而是它作为政策评估过程的一部分向决策者提供的信息。

This project examines consumer's perceptions of the housing crisis in Houston, Texas. The focus is both on the role of individual consumption patterns in causing the crisis as well as the role of governmental policies. The project uses a panel study to examine how consumers' perceptions, government policies and the economic situation impacted the housing situation in Houston. The data that will be generated will allow one to examine the impact of each of these factors as well as to test important economic theories of consumption and to help create a literature in political science that ties in policy regimes to consumptive behavior.The broader impact of this panely study centers not only on the new data that will contribute to basic research, but to the information it provides to policy makers as part of the policy evaluation process.