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Retirement, Housing Mobility, Downsizing and Neighbourhood Quality – A Causal Investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction

Bergström, Lina - 2010

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 …

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Do welfare dependent neighbors matter for individual welfare dependency?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Dang, Rui - 2016

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Verhalten in Bezug auf die Inanspruchnahme … der Empfängerquote der Nachbarschaft korreliert ist. D.h., ein 1%-iger Anstieg der Sozialleistungsempfängerquote in der … Nachbarschaft erhöht ceteris paribus die individuelle Wahrscheinlichkeit des Bezuges um 0.97%. …

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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation

Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016

Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...

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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019

Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...

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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019

Residential mobility rates in the United States have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...

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Neighborhood Effects and Housing Vouchers

Davis, Morris A. - 2020

We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers influence neighborhood choices and child outcomes. We use two new panel data sets with tract-level detail for Los Angeles county to estimate a dynamic model of optimal tract-level...

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Endogenous segregation dynamics and housing market interactions : an ABM approach

Bonakdar, Said Benjamin - 2019

Nachbarschaft und die Interaktion auf dem Häusermarkt, sobald ein Agent die Umzugsentscheidung trifft. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass …

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Neighborhood effects and housing vouchers

Davis, Morris A.; Gregory, Jesse; Hartley, Daniel A.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1307-1346

Researchers and policy makers have explored the possibility of restricting the use of housing vouchers to neighborhoods that may positively affect the outcomes of children. Using the framework of a dynamic model of optimal location choice, we estimate preferences over neighborhoods of likely...

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Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities : Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model

Boschman, Sanne - 2013

preferences, or by other neighbourhood or housing market factors. By using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands, this … study contributes to the literature on neighbourhood selection by ethnic minorities in two ways. First, it distinguishes … found to be important in explaining neighbourhood selection. There are, however, differences between ethnic minority groups …

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