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Although reciprocal relationships with neighbours and local-level civil servants are of paramount importance to people living on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique, they also harbour destructive potentials. In an unstable urban environment built on a presumption of malice, it is consequently...
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evidence of positive externalities from neighborhood homeownership rate. This result is robust to relaxing the identification …Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax … argument in favor of subsidizing owner-occupied housing is that it creates positive externalities or social benefits that …
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We study equilibrium outcomes in markets with asymmetric information about asset values among both buyers and sellers. In residential real estate markets hard-to-observe neighborhood characteristics are a key source of information heterogeneity: sellers are usually better informed about...
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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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