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Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...
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This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
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This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …
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the importance of familial wealth for household wealth accumulation and housing wealth in particular. A back …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that dynastic home equity increases housing wealth inequality among young adults by 20%. …
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-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or not they involve a change in housing tenure … or geographical movement, on both life satisfaction and housing satisfaction. Controlling for individual characteristics … housing satisfaction. This latter is particularly large for renters who become homeowners and move geographically, and for …
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We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size, we compute housing by summing across the marginal products of non … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
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. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …
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