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Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality. Results are robust to the inclusion of various shocks...

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Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

find that villagers' beliefs do contain real information, and that villagers are sophisticated enough to distinguish … activity. This paper examines the accuracy of these perceptions by comparing Indonesian villagers' stated beliefs about … between corruption in a particular road project and general corruption in the village. The magnitude of their information …

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Modelling and Forecasting UK Mortgage Arrears and Possessions

Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears (payment delinquencies). The innovations include the treatment of difficult to observe variations in loan quality and shifts in forbearance policy by lenders, by common latent...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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The Housing Crisis and Bankruptcy Reform: The Prepackaged Chapter 13 Approach

Posner, Eric A; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The housing crisis threatens to destroy hundreds of billions of dollars of value by causing homeowners with negative equity to walk away from their houses. A house in foreclosure is worth 30 to 50 percent less than a house that a homeowner either retains or sells on the market, and a foreclosed...

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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the …

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Food and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Battistin, Erich; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia. After controlling for the endogeneity of total expenditure and for the (unobserved) variability of prices across villages, the best fit is provided by a log-linear specification....

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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?

Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J G; Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...

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