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Housing Booms and Busts and Family Formation of Young Generations

Kuo, Ying-Min - 2019

I investigate a hypothesis that housing cycles change the youth's labor market conditions and influence their marriage and fertility decision. Different from the most literature that examine the effect of housing costs, rents or housing prices, on outcome variables, I construct MSA-level housing...

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Housing Market Regulations and Strategic Divorce in China

Alm, James - 2020

In China's regulated housing markets, a married couple may strategically choose to divorce in order to purchase more houses and/or purchase with more favorable leverages. Our study examines the strategic divorce behavior induced by two major types of housing market regulations in China, quota...

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Who Marries Whom in a Surging Housing Market

Sun, Ang - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of a surging housing market on marital sorting. To cover the increasingly large down payments required in China today, both spouses' parents have to hand over their resources to support the couple in purchasing a new home. The incentive to extend credit to make...

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A spouse and a house are all we need? : housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle

Rock, Bram de; Kovaleva, Mariia; Potoms, Tom - 2023

To analyze the impact of changes in the value of marriage on household decisions, we present a limited commitment framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using...

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Fair Housing's Third Act : American Tragedy or Triumph?

Abraham, Heather R. - 2020

Fifty-two years ago, Congress enacted a one-of-a-kind civil rights directive. It requires every federal agency—and state and local grantees by extension—to take affirmative steps to undo segregation. In 2020, this overlooked Fair Housing Act provision—the “affirmatively furthering fair...

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Sorting and the Skill Premium : The Role of Nonhomothetic Housing Demand

Finlay, John - 2020

Since 1980 skilled and unskilled workers have increasingly sorted into different cities. In this paper we propose and quantify a novel driver of increased spatial sorting — diverging preferences over location attributes caused by diverging incomes across skill groups. The root cause of these...

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Regional Convergence and Structural Change in US Housing Markets

Miles, William - 2019

time achieving mobility across regions. There have accordingly been a number of studies on home price convergence. Some of … regions of the US using Pesaran's pairwise approach. This method obviates some of the methodological issues which have plagued …. We find, first, that overall the US housing market is not convergent across regions. We find some evidence that the high …

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Postwar Housing and Neighborhood Status

Rolheiser, Lyndsey - 2019

Many postwar neighborhood across the United States are exhibiting signs of decline previously only observed in older central cities. With the characteristics of postwar housing being arguably undesirable by current standards, extant literature claims this functional obsolescence is contributing...

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Housing in a Mobile World : A Definition of Flexible Housing and the Classification of Solutions

Glumac, Brano - 2018

a housing solution that enables households to relocate with ease while at the same time providing security, habitability …

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Effects of Housing Transfer Taxes on Household Mobility

Eerola, Essi - 2019

-experimental empirical analysis with a one-sided housing market model where households act as both buyers and sellers. Using a Finnish tax …

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