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This chapter argues that parenting choices are a central force in the joint evolution of culture and economic outcomes. We present a framework in which parents-motivated by both their children's future success and their own normative beliefs-choose parenting styles and transmit cultural traits...
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Nutritional disparities across socioeconomic groups contribute to health inequality in the U.S. This paper studies the role of heterogeneous consumer preferences in food choices and explores pricing policies that can promote healthier eating among disadvantaged consumers. Using detailed...
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real estate agent commissions on home prices, housing turnover, and consumer welfare. Using a calibrated dynamic structural … search model of the housing market, we explore how lowering agent commissions might influence market equilibrium. Our … analysis highlights the importance of accounting for the dynamic nature of the housing market, consumer heterogeneity, and …
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We examine the labor supply effects of short-term income transfers for families experiencing a housing crisis. We link …
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equalized across all neighborhoods, payments for school quality embodied in housing prices are in fact payments for peer …
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tourist demand for housing, younger residents--whose amenity preferences are closest to tourists--are compensated by amenities …
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housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID …
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across housing markets and time. If anything, low-rent units hedge business cycle risk. We also find no evidence for …
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In this chapter we survey recent advances in modeling cultural transmission in the economics literature. We first present the basic canonical model of the evolution of cultural traits in the social sciences. Both Economics and Evolutionary anthropology build on this canonical model but their...
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This chapter explores the impacts of migrants on the culture of their destinations. Migrants often assimilate to local social norms and practices, but they also tend to maintain their own culture. Sometimes, beyond preserving their culture, they influence their new neighbors. We propose a...
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