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homeownership. The factors related to this increase are marriage, increased labor supply by married women, and gifts …
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This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization decisions of municipally-owned apartment buildings, we obtain random variation in home ownership for otherwise similar buildings with similar tenants. We link the tenants to their...
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Owner-occupied housing is said to be favored in the tax code because mortgage interest and property taxes can be deducted in the computation of one's income tax base in spite of the fact that the returns from owner- occupied housing = not taxed. The special tax treatment reduces the user cost of...
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outweigh the higher after-tax interest payments, so inflation reduces the effective cost of homeownership. This paper develops …
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Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...
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Home equity conversion as presently constituted or proposed usually does not deal well with the potential problem of moral hazard. Once home-owners know that the risk of poor market performance of their homes is borne by investors, they have an incentive to neglect to take steps to maintain the...
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about their political leaders, joining non-professional organizations and even gardening. Homeownership may encourage these … investments because homeownership gives individuals an incentive to improve their community and because homeownership creates … conclusive, we find evidence that a large portion of the effect of homeownership on these investments may come from lower …
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Earlier research has shown that lender income and wealth constraint ratios discourage homeownership. This empirical …, the measured impact on the homeownership rate of the constraints falls to only 4 percentage points. Further, FHA loans are … estimated to increase homeownership by only 0.1 to 0.2 percentage points …
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Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such policies is presented here, and conceptual issues are...
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Tests of weak-form efficiency of the market for single family homes are performed using data on repeat sales prices of 39,210 individual homes, each for two sales dates. Tests were done for Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco/Oakland for 1970-86. While evidence for seasonality in real...
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