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Median First-Time Homebuyer Age at 34 Years in 2025, Little Changed from 2024
Median First-Time Homebuyer Age at 34 Years in 2025, Little Changed from 2024Download…
Working Paper
The Philadelphia Story: The Impact of the 2000 Tax Abatement Program on Philadelphia’s Revival
Abstract This paper evaluates the effects of Philadelphia’s 2000 residential property tax abatement, which exempted improvement values on newly constructed or substantially renovated properties, on housing markets, neighborhood reinvestment, and…
Article
NAR Says the Typical First-Time Homebuyer Age Was 40 This Year, Up from 33 in 2021—but Is This Accurate?
It is a challenging time to become a first-time homebuyer (FTB).1 Recent age data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) appears to confirm that young FTBs are facing desperate…
Working Paper
A Critique of the Urban Institute’s Panel Study on Land Use Reforms to Impact Housing Supply: Evidence of Severe Methodological Gaps
Abstract: This paper critically evaluates the Urban Institute’s Land Use Reforms and Housing Costs (2024) study, which aims to link zoning reforms to housing supply using machine-learning analysis of newspaper…
Article
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…that children are more likely to thrive when they are raised by their own stably married parents. It is also good news because, as the Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich has noted,…
Report
The Expertise Upheaval
The Expertise Upheaval – How GenAI Will Reshape the Workplace (25.07.09)Download…
Op-Ed
“Wards of the State” Review: Lives Knocked Off Course
…or what came before it? Ms. Rowe hangs her argument on a 2008 study in which Joseph Doyle, an MIT economist, compared maltreatment cases overseen by strict investigators—who were more…
Report
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
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Blog Post
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?” by economists Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University) and Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania). Here’s the abstract: Housing prices across much of America have hit…
Op-Ed
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…and you get a fuller picture of the familial, economic and cultural forces arrayed against our young men. The bottom line is that, yes, government handouts can, and do, sustain…
Report
Governors Reshaping Workforce Development: Turning WIOA Challenges into Workforce Solutions
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Working Paper
Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle
Abstract We provide an in-depth case study of land use reforms in Seattle to highlight how redevelopment of aging single-family housing to townhomes can lead to a significant increase in…