importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …'s education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability matters. We fill this gap by estimating the causal effect of … residential turnover on student test score gains. We show that high neighbourhood turnover reduces value added for students who …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents’ low employment and to low parental …

behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods …: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate … following an (exogenous) increase in homeownership rates. We show that (1) Oswald's hypothesis does not always hold as it … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the … associations between homeownership and state-ownership rates and outcome variables. Our findings show no discernible effect of … homeownership on parental voting turnout in school elections after controls are added (contrary to the simple positive association …

tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a … immigrants with a stronger commitment to the host country are more likely to achieve homeownership for a given set of …

In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and … preference for renting while those located in a positively skewed income distribution show a greater propensity for homeownership …

Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In particular, the role of … income uncertainty and credit constraints exert a significant negative effect on the probability of homeownership. Our main …

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure … amplifying risk aversion, diminish the likelihood that homeowners start a business; (ii) the negative link between homeownership …