Do wealthier individuals use more health care services than those less affluent? Our paper
addresses this question by examining the relationship between housing wealth and health …

Although there is a consensus that the housing market is deeply affected by credit policies,
little research is available on the impact of credit policies on housing market liquidity …

Local housing markets differ in their liquidity, the ease of transacting. Transacting is often
easier in urban rather than rural locations, for example. To rationalize these liq-uidity …

Between 1989 and 2018, while national reliance on local property taxation to fund K–12
education remained quite stable, 24 states increased reliance on the local property tax …

The measurement of the contribution of expectations to house prices is unresolved in the
macro-housing literature. We leverage a novel quasi-natural experiment using Amazon's …

This thesis contains three chapters based on my studies in the field of demographic, public,
and to a smaller extent, labor economics. The chapters are connected by the common theme …

Research on the urban real estate market (REM) is increasingly incorporating big data.
However, we still know little about the specific application potential of big data. Our study is …

Chapter 1 considers a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model with time-varying
assetmarket liquidity. A lesson from the Great Recession is that the difficulty in asset …

We examine the response in household consumption spending with respect to fluctuations
in income and local unemployment rate, exploiting a large panel dataset that spans the …