Arthur Acolin

TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of discrimination in the French rental market against individuals with names which signal their connection to five immigrant groups (Northern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Poland, Portugal-Spain) was tested by implementing an online field study using one of France's largest online advertisements website.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a novel measure of affordability for the Sao Paulo metropolitan region that combines housing costs and transportation costs, including opportunity cost associated with commuting time, and found that the number of households spending > 30% of their income on housing or 45% or more on housing and transportation cost combined has been increasing rapidly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review evidence of the existence of credit rationing in the US mortgage market and present new estimates of the effect of borrowing constraints in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

TL;DR: This article studied the impact of borrowing constraints on homeownership in the U.S. in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and found that the role the tightening of credit has had on the probability of individual households to become homeowners has not been previously identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the potential impact of key drivers of home ownership rates on home ownership outcomes by 2050 and perform an exercise in which they test for their impact, showing that it is possible for the home ownership rate to decline from current levels of around 64 percent to around 50 percent by 2050, 20 percentage points less than at its peak in 2004.