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report reviewed the existing policy framework related to urban growth in six metropolitan regions – including Vancouver …
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The impacts of demographic change on Canada's fiscal landscape will be profound, and as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, they are no longer far away. If current patterns of spending in age-sensitive public programs - healthcare, education, elderly and children's benefits - persist...
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While we have some understanding of the impact caring for children with complex care needs has on families, little is … known about how these families experience participation. This longitudinal qualitative study aimed to extend our limited … understanding of how the changing geographies of care influence the ways that Canadian families with children with complex care …
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propensity of children from Canadian families, evident in annual surveys spanning two and a half decades, to attend university …
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To the extent that families' fertility decisions respond to economic factors, the price of housing is an important and … fertility. We follow non-moving women aged 18-40 (with their associated families) over time to ask whether changes in lagged …
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Persistent house price increases are a likely candidate for consideration in fertility decisions. Theoretically, higher housing prices will cause renters to desire fewer additional children, but home owners to desire more children if they already have sufficient housing and low substitution...
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Existing home sales' share of Canada's economic pie has been rising in recent years, and variation around this trend has resulted in outsized contributions to changes in real gross domestic product (GDP). In this context, we use a cointegration framework to estimate the level of resale activity...
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cities, especially in the range that low-income households can afford. Urban planning policies have resulted in low … public transit planning. To prevent the marginalisation of low-income households, planning policies should support social mix …
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In this paper, we estimate the effect on housing prices of the expansion of the Vancouver SkyTrain rapid transit network during the period 2001-11. We extend the canonical residential sorting equilibrium framework to include commuting time in the household utility function. We estimate household...
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Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...
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