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The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Indaco, Agustín - 2018

We analyze the role of food insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban areas in the United States – Miami-Dade county (2008-2015), New York city (2003-2016), and...

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The Price of Indoor Air Pollution : Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market

Pinchbeck, Edward - 2020

This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air pollutant which is the largest source of exposure to natural ionising radiation and the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. To overcome potential confounders, we exploit a...

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Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values : The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Ortega, Francesc - 2016

Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to 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...

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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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Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets : Evidence from Singapore

Agarwal, Sumit - 2016

For most people, buying a home is their single largest financial commitment. Previous research shows that Chinese buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer...

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How Do Households Discount Over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016

We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...

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Diversity and Public Goods : A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann - 2011

identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from …

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International Migration and Regional Housing Markets : Evidence from France

d'Albis, Hippolyte - 2017

flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990 to 2013. We then estimated various panel VAR models, taking into …

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

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The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission : Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns Across France

Algan, Yann; Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; … - 2023

This paper studies how economic incentives influence cultural transmission, using a crucial expression of cultural … identity: Child naming decisions. Our focus is on Arabic versus Non-Arabic names given in France over the 2003-2007 period. Our … economic incentives largely influence naming choices: Would the parental expectation on the economic penalty be zero, the …

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