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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085292
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Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Household economies of scale arise when households with multiple members share public goods, making larger households … better off at lower per capita expenditures. While estimates of household economies of scale are critical for measuring … income and living standards, we do not know how these scale economies change over time. I use American household expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829671
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Collateral Valuation and Borrower Financial Constraints: Evidence from the Residential Real Estate Market
Agarwal, Sumit; Ben-David, Itzhak; Yao, Vincent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010703331
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What Drives Nutritional Disparities? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum
Handbury, Jessie; Rahkovsky, Ilya; Schnell, Molly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
detailed data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes in which these consumers are … access are small and explain only a fraction of the variation that we observe in the nutritional content of household … purchases. Systematic socioeconomic disparities in household purchases persist after controlling for access: even in the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272308
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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric; Yilmaz, Kuzey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
) demonstrate how household behavior directly affects the equilibrium outcomes and the provision of the local public good. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401254
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Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
Vigdor, Jacob; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The mid-1980s witnessed breaks in two important trends related to race and schooling. School segregation, which had been declining, began a period of relative stasis. Black-white test score gaps, which had also been declining, also stagnated. The notion that these two phenomena may be related is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718735
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Are Whites Still "Fleeing"? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996
Clotfelter, Charles T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The effect of interracial contact in public schools on the enrollment of whites has been an important concern in assessments of desegregation since the 1970s. It has been feared that 'white flight' -- meaning exit from or avoidance of racially mixed public schools -- could undermine the racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777737
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Household Location and Schools in Metropolitan Areas with Heterogeneous Suburbs; Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy
Hanushek, Eric; Yilmaz, Kuzey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
policies. Household behavior is especially important in considering how households affect the spatial structure of metropolitan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008610968
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Homeownership in the Immigrant Population
Borjas, George - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper analyzes the determinants of homeownership in immigrant households over the 1980-2000 period. The study finds that immigrants have lower homeownership rates than natives and that the homeownership gap widened significantly during that period. The differential location decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828742
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Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990
Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The rise of the dual career household is a recent phenomenon spurred by the increase in married women's labor force …-metropolitan areas by household type from 1940 to 1990. We find that college educated couples are increasingly concentrated in large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775206