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Moving and Housing Expenditure : Transaction Costs and Disequilibrium
Venti, Steven F. - 1982
subsidy programs. As a concomitant to this analysis, the paper reaffirms the low income elasticities of housing expenditure … among low-income renters found by others. Moving transaction costs are high on average among renters in our sample but vary … with low income elasticities make government lump-sum transfers very ineffective in increasing housing expenditure among …
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Making Big Changes : The Impact of Moves on Marriage among U.S. Army Personnel
Carter, Susan Payne - 2018
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing : Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2008
probability of receiving a high school diploma by 5 to 10 percentage points, reduces annual income as a young adult by $1,000 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464799
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Does Parents' Money Matter?
Shea, John - 1997
This paper asks whether parental income per se has a positive impact on children's human capital accumulation. Previous … research has established that income is positively correlated across generations. This does not prove that parents' money … matters, however, since income is presumably correlated with unobserved abilities transmitted across generations. This paper …
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Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work
Stanton, Christopher T.; Tiwari, Pratyush - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-COVID distribution of locations, we estimate how much additional pre-tax income would be necessary to compensate non-remote households …
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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
Cutler, David M. - 2005
This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Analysis of restricted access 1990 Census microdata...
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Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2005
Since 1950, housing prices have risen regularly by almost two percent per year. Between 1950 and 1970, this increase reflects rising housing quality and construction costs. Since 1970, this increase reflects the increasing difficulty of obtaining regulatory approval for building new homes. In...
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Urban Growth and Housing Supply
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2005
Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes. In...
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Covid and Cities, Thus Far
Duranton, Gilles; Handbury, Jessie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A key reason for the existence of cities are the externalities created when people cluster together in close proximity. During Covid, such interactions came with health risks and people found other ways to interact. We document how cities changed during Covid and consider how the persistence of...
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Domestic Violence and Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Cesur, Resul; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Roff, Jennifer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using Difference-in-Differences models, we estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the incidence and … and family-size variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The OBRA-93 expansion caused statistically significant … women and black women. If increased income (rather than changes in employment) is the only channel by which the EITC …
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