Who benefits from rental assistance? Evidence from a natural experiment

Doron Sayag and Noam Zussman

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, vol. 80, issue C

Abstract: Rent subsidies were provided to students living in central Jerusalem between 2006 and 2011 in order to encourage urban renewal. This program led to a marked increase in the number of students renting apartments in the city center. Using diff-in-diffs hedonic estimations, we find that 70–80% of the rent subsidies remained in the hands of the students, within the broad range of incidence rates found worldwide.

Keywords: Rent; Subsidy incidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046217304271
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:regeco:v:80:y:2020:i:c:s0166046217304271

DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.09.002

Access Statistics for this article

Regional Science and Urban Economics is currently edited by D.P McMillen and Y. Zenou

More articles in Regional Science and Urban Economics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().