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House Prices, Non-Fundamental Components and Interstate Spillovers : The Australian Experience
Costello, Greg - 2010
Using Australian capital city data from 1984Q3-2008Q2, this paper utilizes a dynamic present value model within a VAR framework to construct fundamental time series of house prices depicting what aggregate house prices should be given expectations of future real disposable income - the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151121
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Local economic consequences of investment in children : capitalization of child care services
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2017
motivates location of families and thereby influences housing markets. In this paper we analyze this local dimension of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780592
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How do stamp duties affect the housing market?
Davidoff, Ian; Leigh, Andrew - 2013
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757254
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Older Australians and the Housing Aspirations Gap
James, Amity - 2019
This research examined the housing aspirations of older Australians (i.e. aged 55 years and over), including home owners and renters in the private market and in social housing, to provide the evidence-base for policies needed to deliver their required housing and housing assistance
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865077
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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
Davidoff, Ian - 2013
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079730
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How Many in a Crowd? Assessing Overcrowding Measures in Australian Housing
Dockery, Alfred Michael; Moskos, Megan; Isherwood, Linda; … - 2022
funding requirements, the appropriate mix of housing stock given household structures and rules for allocating families to … households. Any measure based only on readily observable metrics of household composition and the number of bedrooms is unlikely … to accurately discriminate between households that are overcrowded—in that occupants are suffering significant adverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014236357
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The Impact of the Pandemic on the Australian Rental Sector
Baker, Emma; Daniel, Lyrian; Beer, Andrew; Rowley, Steven; … - 2022
This research investigates the Australian rental sector during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and considers priorities for governments; tenant experiences and reflections on the effectiveness of assistance and interventions; changing tenant aspirations; and the priorities for emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242347
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600904
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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269589
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You can't be happier than your wife : happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824341