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methods of measuring household welfare (and, accordingly, poverty and inequality) based on expenditures have not considered …
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This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the … conditions. Subsequently, the size of explained variance in the home ownership gap between Dutch and ethnic minority groups is … estimated using the Oaxaca-Fairlie non-linear decomposition method. The analysis indicates that the home ownership gap is the …
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While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in Australia. Using a triple-difference fixed effects approach we show that existing couples are more likely to make relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws...
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constrained capacity to collect and process information. …
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic variables are closer to expert forecasts and less dispersed than households', consistent with higher...
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