Search for dissertations about: "housing wealth"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words housing wealth.
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1. Empirical Essays on Housing Allowance, Housing Wealth, and Aggregate Consumption
Abstract : This dissertation consists of four self-contained essays.Essay I (with Cecilia Enström Öst) investigates whether housing allowance affects recipients’ tenure choice in Sweden. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Housing : tax treatment, prices, and macroeconomic implications
Abstract : Costly reversals of bad policies: the case of the mortgage interest deductionThis paper measures the welfare effects of removing the mortgage interest deduction under a variety of implementation scenarios. To this end, we build a life-cycle model with heterogeneous households calibrated to the U.S. READ MORE
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3. Housing policy and family formation
Abstract : Essay 1: This paper addresses the impact on housing consumption of a decrease in housing allowance among single recipient parents living in rental apartments. We take advantage of an imposed limit on the recipients’ dwelling size in the Swedish housing allowance reform in 1996-1997 that can be argued to be close to a natural experiment. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Stockholm’s real estate market 1730–2020
Abstract : This dissertation examines the long-run development of Stockholm’s real estate market between the years 1730 and 2020. Building on the city’s vast archival sources of housing transactions, it presents new insights into the historical price movements and the class and gender composition of the people that were engaged in the housing market. READ MORE
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5. Essays on welfare and debt : From impact evaluation in Kenya to Canadian housing markets
Abstract : This thesis is comprised of two independent essays on the topics of impact evaluation, and one essay on the housing wealth-effect. The essays address key questions on welfare and spending decisions made by households when subject to government assistance programs and increases in housing prices. READ MORE