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beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …
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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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describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 …
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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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balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise … shows some support for capital-skill complementarity, but the strength of the evidence depends upon the definition of …. -- Capital-skill complementarity ; elasticity of substitution ; nonparametric kernel ; stochastic dominance …
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greatly reduces bias in the most influential and precise estimates: conservatively accounting for capital taxes paid by the …
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a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …
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The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank's effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...
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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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