The paper focuses on the concentration of wealth defined as the expected present value of lifetime resources. We propose an indirect but robust method that detects a change in the concentration of wealth when the full stream of income receipts along the life cycle is unknown. We rely on the...

[eng] The renovation of La Goutte d’Or, a district near Montmartre (Paris), started in 1985 and continues to this day. Our paper uses the residential housing market as an instrument to evaluate the renovation. We draw on a rich and detailed database on transaction prices, comprising more than...

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A non-linear hedonic model is used to estimate the implicit marginal prices of 17 local public goods in a Paris suburban area on an original data set of some 8200 housing units. The results reveal a robust effect of local public school quality (measured both by the fraction of junior high school...