Estimating the Determinants of Housing Quality: The Case of Ghana

W04-6: This paper examines the determinates of housing quality – a welfare issue of growing importance in many of the under developed counties -- using the case of Ghana to add to the body of empirical knowledge. The paper presents estimates of determinants of housing quality using the Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire survey. Empirical analysis based on the logistic and ordinary least square regressions revealed that tenure, age, income, gender, marital and employment status are significant determinants of housing quality in Ghana. Supply side policy initiatives such as tax credits for developers of new housing and home improvement could help increase quality affordable housing particularly in Ghana…