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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

after entering homeownership. The negative link can be rationalized by portfolio considerations: leveraged housing …

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House prices and rents: micro evidence from a matched dataset in Central London

Bracke, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using the proprietary dataset of a real estate agency, I analyse tens of thousands of housing sale and rental …

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Capitalization of central government grants into local house prices: panel data evidence from England

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikainen, Teemu; Vermeulen, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...

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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent … years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant … household characteristics immigrants are significantly less likely to be in social housing than natives. However, there has been …

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The effect of the UK stamp duty land tax on household mobility

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikainen, Teemu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasi-experimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. Our empirical strategy essentially compares...

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