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importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …
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This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …
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Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...
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We analyze the welfare implications of property taxation. Using a sufficient statistics approach, we show that the tax incidence depends on how housing prices, labor and other types of incomes as well as public services respond to property tax changes. Empirically, we exploit the German...
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During the last decade, Greece faced one of the most severe debt crises among developed countries, leading to Economic Adjustment Programs in order to avoid a disorderly default. Public expenditure was cut, tax rates were increased and new taxes were introduced aiming at restoring public...
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Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of taxation on reserves, thereby allowing them to directly finance their local governments through local tax revenues. In this paper, we compile data on the passage of First Nations tax...
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The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although … many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of … reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling neighbourhood effects is the (econometric) identification of causal effects …
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behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods …: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …
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neighbourhood effects literature is the identification of causal neighbourhood effects. A particular problem is that individuals do … potential of individuals. To get more insight in neighbourhood effects we run separate models for social renters and owner … with multiple neighbourhood scales operationalised. Based on the results we argue that any apparent neighbourhoods effects …
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neighbourhood and decile gains when they move. There are also powerful roles of being unemployed and being (and becoming) a social …
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