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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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In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional … stock market and real estate sector's trading volumes in 31 provinces of China. Its empirical results are based on panel …
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China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the agesaving profile has become U … households, respectively, to raise their saving rates. These two factors account for over half of the increase in China's urban … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension …
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Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy … living alone without any adult children in the village are most at risk of negative consequences of migration, while those …
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occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …
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model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …
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We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...
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Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...
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It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. What is less clear is what happened at the subnational level. This study reports on: 1) how the...
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This study explores the hypothesis that high home-ownership damages the labor market. We show that rises in the home-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a doubling of the rate of home-ownership in a...
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