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Estimating the effect of income on health and mortality using lottery prizes as exogenous source of variation in income

Lindahl, Mikael - 2002

A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary...

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Produce or speculate? : asset bubbles, occupational choice and efficiency

Cahuc, Pierre; Challe, Edouard - 2009

, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading … are large, the private gains associated with trading asset bubbles may lead too many workers to become speculators …

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The long-term impacts of international migration : evidence from a lottery

Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J.; Rohorua, Halahingano; … - 2015

We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...

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Trend-spotting in the housing market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...

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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis

Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

price bubbles are concentrated in the largest cities and in the purchasing market. Prices seem to be driven by the demand …

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Short-term rental bans and housing prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Lisbon

Gonçalves, Duarte; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João … - 2022

We estimate the causal impact of a 2018 zoning reform that banned new short-term rental registries in some parts of Lisbon. The short-term rental licence expires when the house is sold, hence the ban removes the option value of short-term renting a property. We rely on two administrative data...

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Capital prices and Eurozone competitiveness differentials

Askenazy, Philippe - 2013

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...

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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006

Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a "shift-share" of...

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Superstition in the housing market

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

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