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House prices and birth rates : the impact of the real estate market on the decision to have a baby
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - In: Journal of public economics 110 (2014), pp. 82-100
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Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market Boom and Bust
Lovenheim, Michael - 2010
housing wealth causes a 0.07 percent increase in fertility. We find little effects of MSA-level housing price growth on the …While there is a great deal of literature focusing on the relationship between income and fertility, little is known … about how wealth affects fertility decisions of the household. This paper fills this gap in the literature by investigating …
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The cyclical dynamics of illiquid housing, debt, and foreclosures
Hedlund, Aaron - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 289-328
This paper quantitatively accounts for the cyclical dynamics of key macroeconomic housing and mortgage market variables using a tractable, searchtheoretic model of housing with equilibrium mortgage default. To explain these dynamics, the model highlights the importance of liquidity spirals that...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358459
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The ins and arounds in the U.S. housing market
Bachmann, Ruediger; Cooper, Daniel - 2014 - This version: July 21, 2014
In the United States, 15 percent of households change residence in a given year. This result is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on gross flows within and between the two segments of the housing market-renter-occupied properties and owner-occupied properties. The gross flows...
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How does a change in risk perception affect the housing market? : evidence from an industrial accident in France
Bléhaut, Marianne - 2014 - Preliminary version
In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487845
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and house prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391445
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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments
Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020
We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...
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The MNB's house price index methodology
Banai, Ádám; Vágó, Nikolett; Winkler, Sándor - 2017
This study presents the detailed method of the MNB's house price index and the results of the new price indices. The index family is considered to be a novelty among Hungarian housing market statistics in several regards. Firstly, the national index was derived from a database starting in 1990,...
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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter; Siegmann, Adriaan Hendrik; Vuuren, Aico van - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
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