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Incentives and Social Capital : Are Homeowners Better Citizens?
DiPasquale, Denise - 1998
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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New Schools and New Classmates : The Disruption and Peer Group Effects of School Reassignment
Hill, Darryl V.; Hughes, Rodney P.; Lenard, Matthew A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Policy makers periodically consider using student assignment policies to improve educational outcomes by altering the socio-economic and academic skill composition of schools. We exploit the quasi-random reassignment of students across schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate...
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Competitive Effects of Charter Schools
Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...
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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18...
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The Provision of Information and Incentives in School Assignment Mechanisms
Neal, Derek A.; Root, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Research on centralized school assignment mechanisms often focuses on whether parents who participate in specific mechanisms are likely to truthfully report their preferences or engage in various costly strategic behaviors. However, a growing literature suggests that parents may not know enough...
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Race and the Value of Owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990
Collins, William J. - 2000
The racial gap in the value of owner occupied housing has narrowed substantially since 1940, but this narrowing has not been even over time or across space. The 1970s stand out as an unusual decade in which the value gap did not narrow despite continued convergence in the observed...
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
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Addressing Biases that Impact Homeowners' Adoption of Solar Panels
Kunreuther, Howard; Polise, Anna; Spellmeyer, Quinlyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Solar power is now economically competitive with fossil fuels in many countries, yet relatively few homeowners have installed solar panels on their property. A principal reason for this behavior stems from cognitive biases--such as myopia, inertia and herding--that cause consumers to avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510556
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Economic Crises and Mental Health : Effects of the Great Recession on Older Americans
Cutler, David M.; Sportiche, Noémie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the effect of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on the mental health of older adults, using longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data linked to area-level data on house prices. We use a variety of measures to capture mental health and rely on the very large cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172117
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Human-Algorithm Interactions : Evidence from Zillow.com
Fu, Runshan; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using bi-weekly snapshots of Zillow in three US cities, we document how home sellers and buyers interact with Zillow's Zestimate algorithm during the sales cycle of residential properties. We find that listing and selling outcomes respond significantly to Zestimate, and Zestimate is quickly...
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