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This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air …
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This paper is a first attempt to study the size and development of the shadow economies of 157 countries over 1999 to 2013. Using a MIMIC model, we find that higher tax and regulatory burden, unemployment and self-employment rates are drivers of the shadow economy, meaning that an increase of...
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Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on health care expenditures among Chinese adults aged 18+. Employing a methodology combining a random effects two-part model and instrumental variable estimations, we show that EP...
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing … conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. We find that housing improvement reduces the … health effect is enhanced by longer treatment periods and consistent across several robustness checks. Housing conditions …
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The aim of this paper is to get new insight into the complex relationship between social inequalities and socioeconomic segregation by undertaking a comparative study North and South European cities. Our main finding shows that during the last global economic cycle from the 1980s through the...
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of lead-paint remediation on housing prices. Using data on all homes that applied to a HUD-funded program in Charlotte …
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. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …
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NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment … job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In …
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affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The unexpected arrival of a large number of refugees due to civil conflict … in Syria is used to construct a quasi-experimental design. Since the construction of new housing units takes a long time … rents of higher-quality housing units, while there is no statistically significant effect in the rents of lower …
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In this paper, we show that, in terms of real disposable income, changes in housing expenditures dramatically … for income net of housing expenditures. At the same time, the income share of housing expenditures rises disproportionally … cities. Younger cohorts spend more on housing and save less than older cohorts did at the same age, with possibly negative …
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