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Chapter 25. Neighborhood Effects And Housing
Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1281-1340). 2011
This chapter focuses on neighborhood effects in housing markets. Households in effect choose neighborhood effects, or … priced by housing markets and be capitalized into housing values and rents. The chapter focuses on models that are … dimensionality. The chapter examines neighborhood choice, with endogenous and contextual neighborhood effects, and housing demand …
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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I 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...
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Deindustrialization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of Urban Agglomerations in Germany
Gornig, Martin; Goebel, Jan - 2015
The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301490
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Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations
Gornig, Martin; Goebel, Jan - 2014
Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400151
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The effect of culture on home-ownership
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data on first-generation immigrants who arrived in the United States under 6 years old. Following the epidemiological approach, those early-arrival immigrants grew up under the same...
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Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined
Alabrese, Eleonora; Becker, Sascha; Fetzer, Thiemo; … - 2018
Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and the latter might suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society,...
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Language diversity in urban landscapes: An econometric study
Onofri, Laura; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Cenoz, Jasone; … - 2008
This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...
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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities: A configurational perspective
Barros, Ana Paula; Soares de Medeiros, Valério Augusto; … - 2017
This article investigates the use of the configurational variable, which deals with the city form-space relations regarding transportation issues, to study spatial segregation and urban accessibility in four Brazilian cities (Belém, Manaus, Recife and São Paulo), with a focus in precarious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234239
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Deindustrialization and the polarization of household incomes: The example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2015
The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520584
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Deindustrialization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2015
The tertiarization, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the urban landscape, but also in the income and social structures of cities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519458