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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK
Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent … years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant … household characteristics immigrants are significantly less likely to be in social housing than natives. However, there has been …
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Keeping it simple: financial literacy and rules of thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Gregory; Schoar, Antoinette - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Individuals and business owners engage in an increasingly complex array of financial decisions that are critical for their success and well-being. Yet a growing literature documents that in both developed and developing countries, a large fraction of the population is unprepared to make these...
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Access to finance: a functional approach to supply and demand
Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071530
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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting
Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...
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