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expansion of U.S. homeownership using an equilibrium model of tenure choice. In the model, home buyers have access to a menu of ….S. economy and is capable of accounting for the boom in homeownership in 1960. The decomposition suggests that government … taxation of housing services can have significant effects on homeownership …
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The largest 20th-century increase in U.S. home ownership occurred between 1940 and 1960, associated largely with declining age at first ownership. I shed light on the contribution of coincident government mortgage market interventions by examining home loan benefits granted under the World War...
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experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the …
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attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …
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Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, conduct disorders, and other behavioral problems. Our...
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This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income from 1920 to 2000 in Canada using personal income … top income shares in Canada and the United States, associated with much more modest marginal tax rate cuts in Canada …, suggests that the upward trend in top shares in Canada since the late 1970s cannot be explained by tax cuts. Further evidence …
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This paper attempts to measure and explain recent changes in the distributions of family income in Canada and the U … income increased faster in Canada than in the U.S.. though income inequality increased unambiguously in the U.S., but not in … Canada. Imposing a simple structure on the data reveals that the social welfare implications of these changes are generally …
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We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from...
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homeownership but the long-run growth in levels has been similar for both groups, and therefore the racial gap measured in …
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We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...
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