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Some commentators have argued that the housing crisis may harm labor markets because homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth are less likely to move to places that have productive job opportunities. I show that, in the available data, negative equity does not make homeowners less...
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correlated in most villages with portfolio-choice estimates. The heterogeneity matters for policy: Although the average household …
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We use scanner data to estimate inflation rates at the household level. Households' inflation rates have an annual … exhibit only slightly negative serial correlation. Almost all variability in a household's inflation rate comes from … variability in household-level prices relative to average prices, not from variability in aggregate inflation …
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-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household …
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