Journal Article
The authors examine how price commitments impact the amount of information firms acquire about potential customers.
Multimedia
In this Resilient Communities podcast, we hear from Heather Schwartz, a policy researcher based in RAND's New Orleans office who studies the effects of integrating low- and middle-income families on the school experiences of children from low-income families.
Report
Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) policies require that a proportion of units in market-rate residential developments are made affordable to lower-income households in exchange for development rights or zoning variances. IZ programs provide greater access to low-poverty neighborhoods, which are often correlated with high-performing schools.
Project
Health outcomes may be related to financial status, including home ownership. A comparative analysis of housing price risk during economic downturns in different countries can help researchers better understand this relationship.
Report
Examines the potential for better feedback on electricity usage to reduce household energy consumption.
Research Brief
In light of what occurred after Katrina and the other 2004-2005 hurricanes, the authors propose goals for an effective Gulf Coast residential insurance market and highlight policy reforms that warrant consideration for achieving those goals.
Report
Proposes goals for an effective U.S. Gulf Coast residential insurance market and highlights policy reforms that warrant consideration for achieving those goals.
Report
This RAND Gulf States Policy Institute report describes the pre-Hurricane Katrina housing markets in Mississippi's three coastal counties, the damage they sustained, current status, and what might inhibit recovery.
Report
This study examines the rationale and strategies available to the federal government for promoting and accelerating innovation in housing.
Journal Article
This study suggested that becoming independently housed may improve some aspects of quality of life for homeless people, but not others.
Report
The Housing Assistance Supply Experiment showed that housing allowances do not cause serious price increases, contrary to many pre-experiment predictions. Empirical observation and theoretical analyses both indicate that even during the initial, max...
Report
Summarizes and interprets the findings of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE), conducted in two metropolitan housing markets between 1974 and 1980.
Report
Proposes an experimental design for testing supply response to housing allowance demand. Problems include (1) quantifying changes in housing service flow, (2) creating a small-scale market, (3) focusing and stabilizing demand, (4) observing response...
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Examines factors affecting an eligible household's decision to apply for a housing allowance during the first program year in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Report
Explores the feasibility of providing homeowners' housing allowances in the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) through an existing program of mortgage subsidies for low-income homeowners, Sec. 235 of the National Housing Act. Compares the ...
Report
Reviews the conjectures about allowances' market effects, summarizes evidence from the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment, and explains why the allowance program has not engendered the price inflation that was expected.
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Description of a micro-level urban simulation model of Cook County, Illinois. Although similar to the NBER Urban Simulation Model in its emphasis of polycentric employment locations, heterogeneous housing bundles, neighborhood externalities, and disc...
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Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years
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Examines experimental evidence from fullscale housing allowance programs conducted in Brown County, Wisconsin, and St. Joseph County, Indiana.
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Develops a theoretical model of the housing market capable of incorporating a wide range of housing characteristics, and subjects the theory to an empirical test.
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