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thedynamics of the low-income housing stock. We find that,consistent with theoretical models of housing, restrictions onthe supply … targeted toward new, higher income owner-occupiedsuburban housing can have unintended negative consequencesfor lower income …
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[...]This exploratory paper first tests whether homeownershiphas equally positive effects for children of low-income … andhigher income families. Focusing on the low-income group, itthen examines whether, and how, these homeownership effectsare … influenced by neighborhood attributes. The next sectionreviews theories of the ways in which homeownership couldbenefit children …
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s(HUD) Moving to Opportunity for Fair HousingDemonstration, or MTO, is a large, federally funded socialexperiment designed to test whether improved neighborhoodopportunities may significantly affect the life chances of lowincomepublic...
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system.Some have expanded the role of former income maintenance(eligibility) workers to include more tasks related to …
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[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...
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[...]In this article, we measure banks’ alternative fundingsources for Fedwire funds transfers throughout the day, usinga data set that includes all banks’ Fedwire funds transfers andFederal Reserve System deposits. This approach allows us togauge the importance of incoming payments as a...
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of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
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affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
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This paper explores changes in the relationship betweenrace, income, and criminal victimization over time. Interestin … income earned by the top 5 percentof American families increased from 15.3 percent to 20.1 percent.Families in the bottom …
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indicate that theearnings of low-income and historically disadvantagedworkers rose faster in 1997 and 1998 than those of …
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