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A model of racial discrimination provides testable implications for two features of statistical discriminators: differential treatment of signals by race and heterogeneous experience that shapes perception. We construct an experiment in the U.S. rental apartment market that distinguishes...
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This paper provides new evidence on the impact of private property rights and employer-provided housing on … state-owned housing the opportunity to buy their homes at subsidized prices. I develop a model of job choice to test two …
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We use cross-country microdata and counterfactual methods to document international differences in ownership and holdings of stocks, private businesses, homes, and mortgages among older households in thirteen countries. We decompose these differences into two parts, related to population...
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potentially borrowing constrained households increases between [dollar]0.06 and [dollar]0.18 per dollar increase in their housing …
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This article presents the results of a survey carried out in spring 2012 to determine the level of housing costs … incurred by Austrian households. The housing cost survey shows that the share of housing costs borne by homeowners (loan … tenants’ income. The burden of housing costs is significant in the lowest income quartile, in particular (tenants: 51% of …
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Second-hand housing markets are to-day the regulations of local systems lf land and housing prices. They disclose the …
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Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing …
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Numerous papers have tried to understand housing’s role in the economy and have not reached an agreement. In this paper … we turn to the asymmetric relationship between housing and the overall economic activity. We find that the relation … between building permits and GDP is regime-dependent. Causality analysis suggests that the housing variable leads output only …
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Brazil has largely accomplished its urban transition but housing conditions for many residents of its urban centers … measure of housing adequacy based on seven different deficiencies and estimates the number of households living in these … conditions in Sao Paulo metropolitan region over the period 2007-2013 using PNAD data. These housing situations necessitate …
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This paper argues for the importance of separating the bundled good of housing into land and improvements, because …
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