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What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Handbury, Jessie; Rahkovsky, Ilya; Schnell, Molly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The poor diets of many consumers are often attributed to limited access to healthy foods. In this paper, we use detailed data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes in which these consumers are making these decisions to study the role of access in...

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Fertility and Financial Development: Evidence from U.S. Counties in the 19th Century

Basso, Alberto; Bodenhorn, Howard; Cuberes, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The old-age security hypothesis establishes that one important reason why parents have a large offspring is to ensure that they will receive financial support from them in old age. In this paper we use data on fertility and financial development in 19th century U.S. to indirectly test this...

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Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market

Bayer, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernando V.; Casey, Marcus D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

and home ownership and the persistence of residential segregation. …

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On Fiscal Illusion and Ricardian Equivalence in Local Public Finance

Banzhaf, Spencer; Oates, Wallace E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We re-evaluate two forms of fiscal illusion in local public finance: debt illusion and renter illusion. The Ricardian Equivalence Theorem for local governments suggests the form of finance of a public program (tax or debt finance) has no effects on substantive outcomes. For the local case, this...

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Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping

Card, David E.; Rothstein, Jesse; Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

A great deal of urban policy depends on the possibility of creating stable, economically and racially mixed neighborhoods. Many social interaction models - including the seminal Schelling (1971) model -- have the feature that the only stable equilibria are fully segregated. These models suggest...

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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...

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When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Vigdor, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a … segregation, controlling for individual characteristics and both metropolitan area and country-of-origin fixed effects, we … may illuminate some of the causal mechanisms relating segregation to outcomes. …

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Momentum traders in the housing market: survey evidence and a search model

Piazzesi, Monika; Schneider, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper studies household beliefs during the recent US housing boom. The first part presents evidence from the Michigan Survey of Consumers. To characterize the heterogeneity in households' views about housing and the economy, we perform a cluster analysis on survey responses at different...

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Interjurisdictional Housing Prices and Spatial Amenities: Which Measures of Housing Prices Reflect Local Public Goods?

Banzhaf, Spencer; Farooque, Omar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Understanding the spatial variation in housing prices plays a crucial role in topics ranging from the cost of living to quality-of-life indices to studies of public goods and household mobility. Yet analysts have not reached a consensus on the best source of such data, variously using...

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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Hanushek, Eric; Yilmaz, Kuzey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

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