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Delivering affordable housing and neighborhood quality : a comparison of place- and tenant-based programs
Eerola, Essi; Saarimaa, Tuukka - 2017 - This version: September 2017
savings to public housing tenants are less targeted towards low-income households than housing allowance. In addition, low …-income public housing tenants live in poorer, less educated and lower quality neighborhoods than similar low-income households in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734387
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Short-Term Effects of House Prices on Birth Rates
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2016
This paper explores the effects of house prices on fertility rates using a new instrumental variable strategy, exploiting exogenous variation in house prices induced by planning restrictions. Using data from English counties, the instrumental variable estimates indicate that: A 10 per cent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982140
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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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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake : New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew James - 2022
interregional spillovers matter and that resilient regions cluster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078008
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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022
interregional spillovers matter and that resilient regions cluster. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347147
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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595162
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters … proceed from novel administrative data on homeless families observed in the context of a scarcity-induced natural experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257997
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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned … to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also access more public benefits and are more apt to work. A fixed effects … model assessing multi-spell families confirms these main results. Complementary instrumental variable and regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258010
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Nominal rigidities in debt and product markets
Garriga, Carlos; Kydland, Finn E.; Šustek, Roman - 2016
Standard models used for monetary policy analysis rely on sticky prices. Recently, the literature started to explore also nominal debt contracts. Focusing on mortgages, this paper compares the two channels of transmission within a common framework. The sticky price channel is dominant when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539811
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Winner picking in urban revitalization policies : empirical evidence from Berlin
Richter, Felix - 2014
Urban revitalization programs are widespread used but empirically understudied place-based policy instruments which attract increasing attention in recent years. This study adds to the existing literature by evaluating the selection process which led to the designation of a set of five urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487842