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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Housing Wealth"”.
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation comprises three papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War …
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Empirical investigation of nonlinear asset pricing kernel with human capital and housing wealth
… work, by extending the definition of the total wealth including human capital and housing wealth. This research work is novel and especially important to understand asset price behavior after year 2007, the credit crisis. Housing price growth rate is a very critical indicator for long-term …
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Housing wealth and accumulation: Home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970
The housing wealth experiences of ethnic minority home owners is relatively unexplored within the UK literature. This thesis makes a contribution to this field by exploring the experiences of African Caribbean post war families. There are a number of original points of departure to this literature …
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Essays on Retirement Behavior during the Housing Boom and Bust
… the effects of loss aversion concerning the housing market and the local foreclosure rate on retirement during the housing bust periods. The second chapter creates a dynamic programming life-cycle model with the housing wealth and uses the Method of Simulated Moments to systematically study …
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Essays In Health Economics
… period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. The results indicate significant housing and financial wealth effects and relatively large housing wealth effects for the pooled sample. Results for each survey years of the Survey of Consumer …
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The Stock Market, the Housing Market and Consumption
… the relationship between consumption and wealth. The recent subprime mortgage crisis in the US and the European sovereign debt crisis associated with the remarkable fluctuations in both stock and housing markets have brought new concerns over the response of consumer spending to asset …
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College Enrollment, Graduation, and Financing: The Role of Parental Income and Wealth
… chapter examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing decisions, graduation, and the quality of college attended, as well as whether parental financing affects the subsequent indebtedness of parents and children. The results show …
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Essays on Labour Supply, Retirement, and Consumption
… Kai Liu, Shawn Ni and Youn Seol. We estimate the wealth effect on consumption by exploiting the differential effect of housing price booms and busts across households with different holdings in housing wealth. We also extend the analysis of the wealth effect from the consumption growth to its …
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Essays on the behavioral political economy of housing
This dissertation examines the ways in which housing markets shape and are shaped by the political decisions that citizens make, as well as the political beliefs that they hold. It contributes to theoretical knowledge on the political economy of urban development and housing by revisiting existing …
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… limit corresponds to a $0.75 decrease in non-housing wealth among single mothers without a high school diploma. This suggests that less stringent asset tests reduce incentives to save, consistent with models in which more generous public insurance lowers the need for precautionary saving. To …
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Essays on the impact of housing insecurity and other socioeconomic factors on health-related outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries during the Great Recession
… policy, they have informed less of relevant housing or healthcare policies focused on preventing or mitigating the effects of housing insecurity during economic crises. In this dissertation, I drew from nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data to evaluate the role of …
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Housing price dynamics and household mobility decisions
… chapter attempts to shed light on the role of housing price dynamics in mobility decisions, asking whether households respond to prices in a forward- or backward-looking manner, and the extent to which high leverage constrains moving behavior. On a broader level, the study tests whether price …
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Quantitative Insights into Pension Reform in Emerging Economies: The Case of Vietnam.
… low-skill informal workers would lead to higher housing wealth compared to those in low-skill formal group, basically indicating that informal workers compensate the high employment risk by investing in safe assets, while those in the formal sector diversify their assets portfolio more. Chapter 3 …
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Reparative Urban Science: Challenging the Myth of Neutrality and Crafting Data-Driven Narratives
… paper evaluates the reparative potential of housing programs using algorithmic methods, particularly comparing race-neutral versus race-conscious Special Purpose Credit Programs (SPCPs). It demonstrates that race-conscious SPCPs could significantly reduce the racial housing wealth gap than …