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Moving and Housing Expenditure : Transaction Costs and Disequilibrium
Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - 2021
subsidy programs. As a concomitant to this analysis, the paper reaffirms the low income elasticities of housing expenditure … among low-income renters found by others. Moving transaction costs are high on average among renters in our sample but vary … with low income elasticities make government lump-sum transfers very ineffective in increasing housing expenditure among …
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Making Big Changes : The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among U.S. Army Personnel
Carter, Susan - 2018
We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918242
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing : Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2008
probability of receiving a high school diploma by 5 to 10 percentage points, reduces annual income as a young adult by $1,000 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772447
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Does Parents' Money Matter?
Shea, John - 2021
This paper asks whether parental income per se has a positive impact on children's human capital accumulation. Previous … research has established that income is positively correlated across generations. This does not prove that parents' money … matters, however, since income is presumably correlated with unobserved abilities transmitted across generations. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310553
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Urban Growth and Housing Supply
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
Cities are physical structures, but the modern literature on urban economic development rarely acknowledges that fact. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities or just higher paid workers and more expensive homes. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752616
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Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012
Since 1950, housing prices have risen regularly by almost two percent per year. Between 1950 and 1970, this increase reflects rising housing quality and construction costs. Since 1970, this increase reflects the increasing difficulty of obtaining regulatory approval for building new homes. In...
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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation
Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2021
This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Analysis of restricted access 1990 Census microdata...
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly J. - 2013
independence and potential mismatch.Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076512
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Is the Eldest Son Different? The Residential Choice of Siblings in Japan
Wakabayashi, Midori - 2010
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements (coresidence behavior) of elderly parents and their children (whether elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. Our results provide support for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760574
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Divorce : What Does Learning Have to Do with it?
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2015
divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011093