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Who Partners Up? Educational Assortative Matching and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand

Alimi, Omoniyi - 2019

Educational assortative matching among couples, i.e. the phenomenon whereby the high-educated have partners who are also high-educated, has gained attention in popular media and academic research as a driver of recent changes in the distribution of household income. We examine the effect of...

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Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Mundra, Kusum - 2018

There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...

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Housing Decision with Divorce Risk

Fischer, Marcel - 2019

precautionary savings enables households to buy homes earlier, whereas the presence of transaction costs leads to reduced … homeownership for middle-aged and older households when divorce risk goes up …

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Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?

Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2008

quality indicators, suggesting that households care about school quality, and may be willing to pay for better schools. The …

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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Spatial lock-in : do falling house prices constrain residential mobility?

Chan, Sewin (contributor) - 1998

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Income taxes, property values, and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2003

We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogenous locations within a country, when migration from one country to another is and is not possible. In a closed economy, a utilitarian government may transfer income from the poor to the...

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Homeownership : low household mobility, volatile housing prices, high income dispersion

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2002

We develop a dynamic stochastic equilibrium model of two locations within a city where heterogeneous households make … joint location and tenure mode decisions. To investigate the effect of homeownership on equilibrium prices and allocations … three results. First, homeownership enables more households to remain in the more desirable location at the expense of …

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Urban Growth, Land Scarcity, and Heterogeneous Monetary Policy Effects

LI, NINGHUI; SHEN, HAOPENG; Xia, Tian - 2022

Housing markets vary across growing cities and declining cities, which creates heterogeneous responses of housing prices to monetary policy. We classify urban growth and urban decline based on the population growth rates at the MSA level. Using the local projections method, we find that housing...

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Retirement, Housing Mobility, Downsizing and Neighbourhood Quality – A Causal Investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …

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