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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants
Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019
This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …
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Ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara Helena; Gaalen, Ruben van - 2014
Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for individual and parental background and neighbourhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258182
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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016
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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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771952
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Surprising selection effects in the UK car insurance market
Cannon, Edmund S.; Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Bazar-Rosen, Katia - 2014
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than comprehensive insurance (which includes third-party). Furthermore, some companies charged higher prices for...
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How do workers perceive the risks from automation and the opportunities to retrain? : evidence from a survey of truck drivers
Shoag, Daniel W.; Strain, Michael R.; Veuger, Stan - 2021
How do truck drivers perceive the risk they face from automation and their opportunities to retrain for employment in a different occupation? Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has made rapid progress in recent years, so these questions are likely salient to truckers. Based on surveys of the new...
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The impact of car pollution on infant and child health : evidence from emissions cheating
Alexander, Diane; Schwandt, Hannes - 2019
Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit the dispersion of emissions-cheating diesel cars - which secretly polluted up to 150 times as much as gasoline cars - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural...
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When the market drives you crazy : stock market returns and fatal car accidents
Guilietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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Speeding, punishment, and recidivism : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...
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