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in which households face housing collateral constraints. An increase in the ratio of housing to human wealth loosens … equity decreases as a result. Feeding the historical time series of US housing collateral into the model replicates four … equity holders, especially in the 1990s. (3) The risk-free rate and the housing collateral ratio are strongly positively …
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ranging from government quality to economic growth. Popular authors suggest that housing and architecture are important … determinants of social connection. This paper examines the connection between housing structure and social connection. We find that …
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disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections … infections rates could have been reduced by 8.7% and deaths by 14.8%. Housing precarity policies that prevent eviction and …
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Recent empirical work in public finance uses the housing price response to public investments to assess the efficiency …
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housing speculation during the U.S. housing boom in the 2000s. We find that housing speculation, anchored, in part, on … extrapolation of past housing price changes, led not only to greater price appreciation, economic expansions, and housing …
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-cycle savings. In this paper we examine the role of housing prices in affecting the living arrangements of adult family members and … government rules determining the supply of land for residential housing, we find that increases in housing prices significantly … income, in part due to the subsidies to the young from sharing housing with parents. Based on our estimates of the effects of …
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generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, particularly in their ownership of housing. Furthermore, we provide evidence that at the prefecture level, the size of redefined … migrants is significantly related to residential land supply, and to the proportion of households holding vacant housing units …
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In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
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Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...
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