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homeownership choice may influence wealth accumulation, labormarket outcomes, and even children's educational outcomes. Racial …
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homeownership. While prior research has focused largely on racial disparitiesin household endowments (see, for example, Bostic and …, residential location, and homeownership decisions. The intra-metropolitan mobility and residential location choices of minority … new insights and better-informed policies to enhance minority homeownership. This paper estimates a three-level nested …
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thetypes (general, mobile). Using case studies of segregation and tipping, we find that thereceived wisdom about both can be …
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Simple introspection as well as accumulating evidence from academic research suggests that a core idea of urban economists, that journeys-to-work dominate households’ choice of residential location, is suspect (Giuliano and Small, 1993). Indeed, our own recent research identifies...
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This paper, using 1990 census microdata, investigates immigrants’ residential location choices that are relevant to urban sprawl. Regression models of two location choices are separately estimated, in which households choose from areas with different levels of residential density and new...
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The homeownership rate in the United States was essentially stagnant during the 1980's. This stagnation should be a … changing demographic conditions or preferences. Using a series of affordability measures, we find that homeownership … found that while homeownership opportunities improved during the 1980's, the ex ante use cost of owning a home increased …
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households leave homeownership to become renters. Because of the richness of the data, this analysis is able to control for life …
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This paper examines index revision in measuring the prices for owner-occupied housing. We consider the context of equityinsurance and the settlement of futures contracts. In addition to other desirable characteristics for aggregate price indexes, their usefulness in these contexts requires...
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socioeconomic status comparable to that of native-born whites soon after arrival, as measured by their homeownership rates (Painter … ethnic communities described in Alba et al (2002) than ethnic enclaves Borjas (2000). Chinese homeownership rates adjusted by … other hand, the cultural influence of homeowning peers may have partially contributed to the higher homeownership of Chinese …
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parents who made no down payment have similar outcomes to children of renters. The effect of homeownership holds up under …
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