Econ Papers Daily / 期刊论文
1632–1668年莱顿流行病死亡率与住房财富再分配
Epidemic mortality and redistribution of housing wealth in Leiden, 1632–1668
摘要
How did epidemic mortality affect housing wealth in the pre-industrial period? Using new data on house ownership and variation in street-level mortality in seventeenth-century Leiden, we show that although epidemic mortality targeted poor streets where residents were typically tenants and not owners, these outbreaks still increased the turnover of houses. Ordinarily, turnover was higher in owner-occupied housing sectors, while epidemics created more turnover for low-value houses consolidated in the hands of wealthy investors. In combination with a lack of house price adjustments due to rapid demographic recovery after epidemics, this meant that houses were passed between long-standing owners with similar housing wealth profiles. As a result, epidemics did not affect aggregate housing wealth inequality.
中文摘要
流行病死亡率如何影响前工业化时期的住房财富？利用关于房屋所有权的新数据以及十七世纪莱顿街道层面死亡率的变异，我们表明，尽管流行病死亡率主要针对贫困街道，那里的居民通常是租户而非业主，但这些疫情仍然增加了房屋的流转率。通常情况下，业主自住住房部门的流转率较高，而疫情则为集中在富裕投资者手中的低价值房屋带来了更多流转。结合疫情后人口迅速恢复导致房价缺乏调整的情况，这意味着房屋在具有相似住房财富特征的老业主之间传递。因此，疫情并未影响总体住房财富不平等。