Hilber, Christian A. L.; Turner, Tracy M. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 618-637
This paper examines the impact of the combined U.S. state and federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on homeownership attainment, using data from 1984 to 2007 and exploiting variation in the subsidy arising from changes in the MID within and across states over time. We test whether...