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This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air …
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This paper analyzes wage decomposition methodology in the context of panel data sample selection embedded in a correlated random effects setting. Identification issues unique to panel data are examined for their implications for wage decompositions. As an empirical example, we apply our...
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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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estimators and tests are examined using Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to hedonic housing prices in Paris … estimates of the shadow prices for housing characteristics …
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We analyze the role of food insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel … characterize the food risk level for each property. First, we compare trends in housing values and sales activity among properties …
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ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market. We assemble a large plot …-level dataset with rich geographic data on housing sales in New York City for the period 2003-2015, along with information on which … increased the perceived risk of living in those neighborhoods. We also show that the negative effects on housing prices appear …
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seasonal variations of this ratio the BUSE index recaptures traces of prospect theory whose applicability in the housing market … Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the … of prospective housing market participants.I show this ratio to have several unique, desirable properties which make it …
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buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing …
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We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi … housing services and a second factor that shifts with asset tenure and the discount rate schedule. Exploiting the supply of …
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Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of densities in the presence of covariates which...
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