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The understated "housing shortage" in the United States
Corinth, Kevin; Dante, Hugo - 2022
Following popular discourse, we abuse economic terminology by defining the "housing shortage" in the United States as the difference between the number of homes that would be built in the absence of supply constraints and the actual number of homes. The magnitude of the housing shortage is...
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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … expropriation, suggesting that leveling the hukou status amongst children in an urban area may be a first step towards reducing …
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Decolonization, property rights and language conflicts
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Neogi, Ranajoy Guha - 2017
protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731981
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The effects of climate change in the poorest countries : evidence from the permanent shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman D.; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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Infrastructure's imprint : metro proximity and property development dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil
Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024
How does the proximity to a metro station affect urban development in Latin America? While the literature assessing the causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of metro systems in Latin America and the Caribbean...
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A flexible test for present bias and time preferences using land-lease contracts
Gautier, Pieter; Vuuren, Aico van - 2011
When agents have present bias, they discount more between now and the next period than between period t ( 1) and t + 1. How fast the future discount rate (evaluated today) decays is an empirical question. We show that the discount function can be non-parametrically identified with contracts that...
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Migration, capital formation, and house prices
Grossmann, Volker; Schäfer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas M. - 2013
We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...
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Hukou changes and subjective well-being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
on China, this limitation can be overcome by exploiting exogenous changes in hukou status due to expropriation. The …
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
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Modeling immigrants' language skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
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