The Benefits of the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction

By Edward L. Glaeser, Jessse M. Shapiro. Tax Policy and the Economy, 2003

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The Mortgage Interest Deduction and its Impact on Homeownership Decisions (2010, unknown): “Second, we refer to a theoretical model by Glaeser et al. (2010) to assess the relevance of market-wide equilibrium effects.”
Mortgage Market Design (2012, background): “Economists have long questioned the appropriateness of subsidizing leveraged homeownership in this way (Glaeser and Shapiro 2003).”
Sprawl and Urban Growth (2003, unknown): “We are skeptical about the importance of this force [see Glaeser and Shapiro (2002)], but we agree that subsidizing homeownership will also support the move to sprawl.”
The Evolution of Homeownership Rates in Selected OECD Countries: Demographic and Public Policy Influences (2011, background): “Against this, homeowners have an incentive to restrict new supply – through support for zoning and land-use regulations – in order to raise house prices, which is likely to impose costs on outsiders (Glaeser and Shapiro, 2003; Hilber and Robert-Nicoud, 2010).”
Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital (2005, methodology): “…does not eliminate the positive correlation between population or employ- ment growth and human capital (Glaeser, Scheinkman and Shleifer, 1995; Glaeser and Shapiro, 2003), concerns remain about the causal interpretation of this association.2 The next hypothesis is that a highly educated…”
On the macroeconomic determinants of the housing market in Greece: a VECM approach (2016, background): “Glaeser and Shapiro (2002) argues that owners desire for keeping their property value up, causing cartel and artificial inflation actions in order to control the housing supply.”
What are the social benefits of homeownership? Experimental evidence for low-income households (2010, unknown): “18 Much of the empirical impact of homeownership on social outcomes in, for example, Green and White (1997), DiPasquale and Glaeser (1999), and Aaronson (2000), worked through longer duration.”
On the user cost and homeownership (2006, background): “Glaeser and Shapiro (1991) estimate that the difference in home maintenance between homeowners and renters is large and not attributable to other household specific factors.”