{"title":"A spatiotemporal equilibrium model of migration and housing interlinkages","authors":"Wukuang Cun , M. Hashem Pesaran","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper develops and solves a spatiotemporal equilibrium model in which regional wages and house prices are jointly determined with location-to-location migration flows. The agent’s optimal location choice and the resultant migration process are shown to be Markovian, with the transition probabilities across all location pairs given as non-linear functions of wage and housing cost differentials, endogenously responding to migration flows. The model can be used for the analysis of spatial distribution of population, income, and house prices, as well as for spatiotemporal impulse response analysis. The model is estimated on a panel of 48 mainland U.S. states and the District of Columbia using the training sample (1976–1999), and shown to fit the data well over the evaluation sample (2000–2014). The estimated model is then used to analyze the size and speed of spatial spill-over effects by computing spatiotemporal impulse responses of positive productivity and land-supply shocks to California, Texas, and Florida. Our simulation results show that states with a lower level of land-use regulation can benefit more from positive state-specific productivity shocks; and positive land-supply shocks are much more effective in states, such as California, that are subject to more stringent land-use regulations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101839"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92339979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Somebody that I want to know: The non-monotonic effect of personality information on ethnic and gender discrimination in the market for shared housing","authors":"Raphael Moritz , Christian Manger","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101842","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We conducted a correspondence test to identify the determinants and extent of ethnic discrimination in the market for shared housing in Germany. We establish a link between information about an applicant’s personality and her performance in the housing market. About 2,000 fictitious applications with randomly assigned German-, or Turkish-sounding, female or male names, with or without additional personality information were sent to vacant room ads. While the callback rate for German-sounding names is 52 percent, it drops to 37 percent for Turkish-sounding names. Female applicants receive significantly more callbacks than their male counterparts. Additional personality information is particularly beneficial to the group with the highest callback rate (German females) and the group with the lowest callback rate (Turkish males). Thus, personality information reduce the ethnic gap between Turkish and German males, whereas the gap among females increases. A simple theoretical model shows that the strong effect of information on German females can be explained by aggregation over rooms that differ in market tightness. Moreover, advertisers who only accept applications of one particular gender discriminate significantly more against Turkish applicants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101842"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92230947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of housing subsidy cuts on the labour market outcomes of claimants: Evidence from England","authors":"Daniel Borbely","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Housing subsidies are aimed at helping low-income individuals afford appropriate housing, but are costly to offer and, in the view of some experts and policy makers, reduce incentives for claimants to participate in the labour market. This paper investigates the labour market impacts of recent housing subsidy cuts in England that were aimed at encouraging labour market participation and increasing work effort among claimants. I utilise variation in exposure to the subsidy cuts within a difference-in-differences framework and find limited evidence at the individual-level that claimants increased employment and labour force participation in response to the subsidy cuts. Nonetheless, these findings lack robustness and aggregate-level evidence suggests that the subsidy cuts did not succeed in encouraging employment or participation among claimants. Overall, my results show that labour market responses to the subsidy cuts were likely preempted by a strong mobility response, whereby claimants moved into other parts of the rental market to maintain subsidy coverage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101859"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137722000328/pdfft?md5=9bf309e37cd82c6fe2fd56f3631eb3aa&pid=1-s2.0-S1051137722000328-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47827193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Public Housing Trigger Industrialization?","authors":"Alberto Dalmazzo , Guido de Blasio , Samuele Poy","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101853","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101853","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of public housing plans on local development is a neglected, although potentially important, issue. Here, we consider the impact of a public housing supply shock in a spatial equilibrium model and show that a larger local availability of houses can trigger industrialization by raising the number of residents. Also, the model suggests that this mechanism is stronger in places that exhibited, prior to the public housing plan, relatively higher population density. These implications are confirmed by the evidence we find from the INA-Casa plan, a program implemented by the Italian government in the aftermath of WWII.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101853"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54506740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The price of ignorance: Foreclosures, uninformed buyers and house prices","authors":"Geoffrey K. Turnbull , Arno J. van der Vlist","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101844","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Uninformed buyers may pay more when purchasing complex assets, such as houses. This paper compares local house buyers who are later foreclosed with those not foreclosed for various buyer-types, namely, owner-occupier households, investor-companies, second-home buyers, and small-scale investors. Data from one of the foreclosure epicenters, Orange County, Florida, reveal that subsequent foreclosures are associated with higher prices for comparable housing at the time of purchase. The premium paid by buyers between 2000 and 2007 who experience foreclosure after 2007 is larger closer to the 2007 market peak, approaching 3 percent. We find considerable heterogeneity across buyer-types. In particular, foreclosed second-home buyers and small-scale investors systematically pay more, while investor-companies and owner-occupiers do not. The pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that the premium paid by foreclosed households reflects poor information or limited financial acumen.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101844"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137722000183/pdfft?md5=fdea5ec38e3e8bfed6bafd5bc784a69e&pid=1-s2.0-S1051137722000183-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41412185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The heterogeneous effects of interactions between parent's education and MSA level college share on children's school enrollment","authors":"Jung Hyun Choi , Richard K. Green","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101843","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101843","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study finds that location matters more for children of parents with low educational attainment than for children of more educated parents. Specifically, children of parents without a high school diploma are statistically more likely to be enrolled in high schools or colleges in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) where the college graduate share is higher. The statistical relationship between a child's school enrollment and the MSA's college graduate share becomes weaker as their parents’ educational attainment increases. We also find that the least educated households are significantly less likely to be homeowners and are more likely to pay greater housing costs as a share of income in cities with higher college graduate shares, indicating that these households are paying a high price to live in high-skilled cities. Our results imply that the increasing lack of housing affordability in high-skilled cities makes it more difficult for households with less educational attainment to stay in or move to these places, contributing to intergenerational education </span>inequality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101843"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41497961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negative externalities of long-term vacant houses in a depopulating city in the Tokyo metropolitan area: Measuring long term outcome of neglect","authors":"Masatomo Suzuki, Kimihiro Hino, Sachio Muto","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101856","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49014811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Household production, home improvement, and housing investment among older Americans","authors":"Tim Murray , Richard A. Dunn","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the role of household production in the context of home improvement and investment decisions of older Americans. To calculate the total value of home improvement, we apply a household production model where households can either purchase professional services or combine market goods with their time. We find that household production is a significant source of home investment. Failing to account for the value of time provided by household members greatly understates the total allocation of resources to home improvement. Consistent with standard household models, home production is a substitute for market-purchased services—labor supply is negatively related to the former and positively related to the latter.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101836"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45881361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Voith , Jing Liu , Sean Zielenbach , Andrew Jakabovics , Brian An , Seva Rodnyansky , Anthony W. Orlando , Raphael W. Bostic
{"title":"Effects of concentrated LIHTC development on surrounding house prices","authors":"Richard Voith , Jing Liu , Sean Zielenbach , Andrew Jakabovics , Brian An , Seva Rodnyansky , Anthony W. Orlando , Raphael W. Bostic","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101838","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101838","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is the largest supply-side housing subsidy in the United States, with more than $8 billion worth of credits allocated per year. For a variety of reasons, LIHTC properties tend to be geographically concentrated in low-income urban communities. While numerous studies have examined the spillover effects of these properties on local property values, they have not accounted for the cumulative effects of clustering multiple LIHTC properties within an area. This paper examines the effects of introducing additional LIHTC developments in urban neighborhoods to determine whether the concentration of these affordable housing properties negatively affects local home values. We combine an interrupted time series model with a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the price effects in Chicago and surrounding Cook County, Illinois. We find some evidence that both stand-alone and clustered LIHTC developments generate positive price spillover effects on the surrounding neighborhoods; subsequent LIHTC projects do not affect prices negatively. The benefits are strongest within one quarter mile of the development, but smaller impacts prevail for up to a half mile from the LIHTC property. The positive impacts remain strong for at least 10 years after the initial development. The cumulative price effect is positive in both lower and higher-income areas and more significant in lower-income areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101838"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137722000134/pdfft?md5=4511759284d9a7122e97b6f0889f5bcc&pid=1-s2.0-S1051137722000134-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48644527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loss aversion in housing appraisal: Evidence from Italian homeowners","authors":"Andrea R. Lamorgese, Dario Pellegrino","doi":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhe.2022.101826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Loss aversion is considered a driver of downward price rigidity in real estate markets: during downturns – when market price of their house is below the price at which they purchased it – loss averse homeowners do not evaluate their houses at the former one but anchor the resale price to the latter price. As a consequence, prices are sluggish to adjust downward, time to sale becomes longer, ask and transaction prices differ.</p><p>We document loss aversion for the Italian real estate market and complement the existing literature along two dimensions: (i) we test for loss aversion using homeowners’ evaluations of their houses, rather than ask or final prices, as customary in the literature; (ii) we document variation across household characteristics in the degree of loss aversion.</p><p>We find that homeowners subject to estimated losses stick to the price at which they purchased and do not revise their assessment in response to downward market conditions, whereas the evaluation of those expecting a gain is independent of previous sale prices. Although there is a strong case for loss aversion in our sample, we document some variation across demographic groups: poorer, younger and less educated households show more reference dependence than the average one.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51490,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Housing Economics","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101826"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54506730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}