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disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections … by 4.4% and mortality rates by 7.4%. Had such policies been in place across all counties (i.e., adopted as federal policy … 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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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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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 …, from about 20% in the early 1980s to 60% in 2018. In addition to natural population growth, rural-urban migration is …, however, we find that a large share of urban population growth comes from community reclassification. These redefined migrants …
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also enhanced development, efficiency, and profitability. Following the reforms, banks are better capitalized, more …
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country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … of their populations in lagging regions experience greater reduction in poverty rates following trade liberalization. Our …
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Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative health and reduce vulnerability to health shocks. Simply providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to...
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