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homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …
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channel? A body of literature which followed the seminal work of DiPasquale and Glaeser suggests that homeownership is … of community. Because homeownership is not randomly assigned, matching methods are used to control for selection effects. …
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Does homeownership affect individual social capital and thereby influence local outcomes? Following DiPasquale and … Glaeser, a body of literature suggests that homeownership is positively related to social capital formation. Homeowners have …, homeownership creates barriers to geographic mobility, which increases the present value of the expected stream of benefits from …
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In this paper we link unique data on local social infrastructure expenditure with micro-level individual survey data of self-reported social capital measures of trust and participation in community activities. We use both probit and tobit models to estimate the impact of social infrastructure...
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homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … and mortgaged homeownership. Generally, the evidence that a declining homeownership rate contributes to a lower …
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In this article we consider how international migration is related to the frequency and duration of trips to the home country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with...
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One of the main challenges facing non-metropolitan regions is the attraction and retention of highly-educated young people. A loss of the brightest can lead to reduced business creation, innovation, growth and community wellbeing in such regions. We use rich longitudinal microdata from New...
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. Population age-groups respond very differently to the shocks, in ways that are consistent with homeownership being a factor … with respect to infrastructure location and also for programmes designed to stimulate homeownership …
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