"Homeless Networks: Testing Peer and Homed Networks Against Location Choice"

This paper examines the location choices of homeless people in Osaka City, and .nds them concentrated because of homeless networks. The paper also shows that different types of homeless networks operate in two different homeless groups: (1) peer networks that provide a social tie inside homeless communities are observed in groups that had not had work experience in the day labor market; (2) homed networks that provide a social tie outside homeless communities affect location choice in the expected way, although the effect is statistically insigni.cant in groups that had worked in the day labor market.

"Homeless Networks and Geographic Concentration: Evidence from Osaka City"

Homeless people in Osaka City are geographically concentrated. The purpose of this paper is to examine this geographic concentration by focusing on homeless networks. The data we use contain information on Osaka City.s homeless population by census blocks. The estimated results of a spatial autoregressive model with autoregressive disturbances show that the homeless network is signi.cantly positive across census blocks. Networks exist in a homeless society.

Asset price indices for Japanese art auction market: An application to the Japanese artist

This research is one of the few to analyzed a Japanese art auction market. We found the hedonic price index of artworks in Japan’s art auction market, between 2006 and 2019. Considering the sample selection bias in the auction and the price index measurement by the traditional hedonic time dummy model of log-price, we presented the estimation of the hammer price by the exponential type II Tobit model. Using the difference between the conditional expectation of the logarithmic price, a new price index that takes into account the variation of selection bias was defined. Art price index by the ordinary least squares estimation without considering the sales selection has a negative bias in the Japanese art auction market

Homeless Networks: Testing Peer and Homed Networks Against Location Choice.

This paper examines the location choices of homeless people in Osaka City, and finds them concentrated because of homeless networks. The paper also shows that different types of homeless networks operate in two different homeless groups: (1) peer networks that provide a social tie inside homeless communities are observed in groups that had not had work experience in the day labor market; (2) homed networks that provide a social tie outside homeless communities affect location choice in the expected way, although the effect is statistically insignificant in groups that had worked in the day labor market

Decomposition Analysis of the Household Migration

The purpose of this research is to show the trends and feature of household migration using the microdata in Housing and Land Survey of Japan (at 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008). We screen the effective observation data and examine the variation of the attribute of moving or staying household with regard to age, type of employment, income, housing tenure, residence performance and so on. We characterize the variation in the ratio of household mobility through the decomposition the variation of age distribution (VAD) and the variation of propensity to move (VPM). Drop of the ratio of household mobility is dominated by VAD on the basis advancing aging society. There is the cases that VPM are increasing even if the ratio of household mobility is declining as a whole tendency

Homeless Networks and Geographic Concentration: Evidence from Osaka City

Homeless people in Osaka City are geographically concentrated. The purpose of this paper is to examine this geographic concentration by focusing on homeless networks. The data we use contain information on Osaka City\u27s homeless population by census blocks. The estimated results of a spatial autoregressive model with autoregressive disturbances show that the homeless network is significantly positive across census blocks. Networks exist in a homeless society

An Essay on The Relationship Between Suburban Location Regulations for Large-Scale Customer-Attracting Facilities and City Center Revitalization Initiatives in Japan

In response to the problem of the decline of city center currently happening in Japan, this study investigated the role of the location of large-scale customer-attracting facilities regulation in the suburbs in city center revitalization in Japan. To provide relevant background, this paper reviews the history of the enactment of Japan’s three city planning laws aimed at revitalizing waning city centers and traces the state of the local economy in the period of interest to assess the outcomes of the laws. The paper also describes the rationale for suburban location regulation and reports findings of the analysis of the fundamental factors that have contributed to the decline of city centers, namely urban transport, land prices, and price adjustment and vacancy rates. Regarding practical implications, this research intends to provide material that will contribute to city revitalization efforts in the form of city center decline countermeasures. Potential measures are discussed in this paper from an economic perspective, including elucidation of the benefits and drawbacks of regulating store location with respect to the suburb

Why is marital partner search in depopulated areas difficult?: Findings from the comparative interviews in urban and rural areas in Toyama Prefecture

This article investigated the mechanisms that made it difficult for single Japanese men in depopulated areas to search for a marriage partner. We used comparative interviews conducted in an urban area and a rural (depopulated) area in the Toyama prefecture in Japan. We found that the difficulty in a partner search of single men in the depopulated area was mainly the result of the supply of potential marriage partners due to the acute imbalance in the gender ratio of single men and women rather than the demand for marriage on the part of single men. Moreover, the lack of privacy due to dense interpersonal networks and a strong sense of shame, workplace characteristics, inconvenient public transportation, and the traditional "Ie" system made single men\u27s partner search difficult in the depopulated area compared to their counterparts in an urban area

Semiparametric Estimation of Time, Age and Cohort Effects in An Hedonic Model of House Prices

In hedonic models of housing prices, it is impossible to estimate simultaneously the impact of selling time, age and cohort effects without introducing some restrictions on estimated effects. In this paper we address the simultaneity problem by estimating time, age and cohort effects with a semiparametric generalized additive model that allows for a nonlinearity in age and cohort effect. The model is applied to house prices in 23 Tokyo special wards between 1990 and 2008. Estimates of age effect showed lower prices for older houses, and we failed to reject the linearity restriction in this effect. On the other hand, there was a significant nonlinearity in estimates of cohort effect, which justified the application of the nonparametric regression model. We also examined the joint impact of cohort and age effect on housing prices, and found that the shape of age effect was different across cohorts of housing. Estimates of year effect indicate a declining trend in prices that was more pronounced compared with conventional hedonic models that do not include simultaneously age, time, and cohort effects on housing prices

The Speed–Density Relationship: Road Traffic Flow Analysis with Spatial Panel Data

In this paper, we focus on the fundamental speed–density relationship of aggregated vehicular traffic flow in the entire urban area. We use aggregated observations on routes that are treated as cross-section units in three time intervals and examine the speed–density relationship. We consider a variety of routes and road networks for our spatial panel data analysis. We apply the estimator of Kelejian and Prucha (1999) to the usual panel data case, based on certain restrictions on the evolution of spatial dependence over time