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This study investigates the influence of availability and affordability of housing on demographic changes through an international analysis of the relationship between age specific headship rates and housing availability and affordability. The researchers describe the basic trends in household...
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Modern empirical work on the choice between renting and owning focuses on the concept of the "user cost" of housing, which integrates into a single measure the various components of housing costs. The standard approach implicitly assumes that households know the user cost of housing with...
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We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...
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Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid wages and benefits at least equal to those “prevailing†for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive...
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We study employers’ perceptions of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector (for-profit vs. public) and selectivity of institution to fictitious resumes and send them to real vacancy postings on a large online job board. We find that a bachelor’s degree...
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