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Addressing soil quality data gaps with imputation : evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Carletto, Calogero; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2024

Monitoring soil quality provides indispensable inputs for effective policy advice, but very few poorer countries can implement high-quality surveys on soil. We offer an alternative, low-cost imputation-based approach to generating various soil quality indicators. The estimation results validate...

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Immigration and housing rents in American cities

Saiz, Albert (contributor) - 2006

cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas …

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No room to live : urban overcrowding in Edwardian Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality … with lower and less regular incomes in places where rents are lower. -- Poverty ; rent ; overcrowding ; Scotland ; 1904 …

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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values

Winters, John V. - 2012

more dispersed than rent-based estimates, likely because of the recent housing bubble and because housing values often …

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Compensating differentials in emerging labor and housing markets : estimates of quality of life in Russian cities

Berger, Mark C. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Taxing home ownership : distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income

Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - 2012

rent, net of mortgage interest and maintenance costs, in taxable income as any cash income source that extends consumption … opportunities. Three scenarios are analysed in six European countries: in the first imputed rent is included in the taxable income … abolished. In two further revenue-neutral scenarios, the additional tax revenue raised through the taxation of imputed rent is …

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Explaining regional disparities in housing prices across German districts

Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022

Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...

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Estimating who benefits from productivity growth : direct and indirect efects of city manufacturing TFP growth on wages, rents, and inequality

Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico - 2019

We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...

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Immigration, housing rents, and residential segregation : evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tok, Elif Ozcan; Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, … - 2018

The massive inflow of Syrian refugees is argued to drastically affect various social and economic outcomes in the hosting countries and regions. In this paper, we use micro-level data to investigate whether the Syrian refugee inflows have affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The...

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The 2015 European refugee crisis and residential housing rents in Germany

Kürschner Rauck, Kathleen; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018

end of year county-level refugee populations and data on monthly offers of flats for rent from Germany's leading online …

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