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There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as "Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by...
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, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …
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first establish a positive association between rising housing prices and emigration across both regions. More critically, we …), while it is negatively associated with emigration in regions with lower tourism levels (early TALC stage). Our findings shed …
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Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...
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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
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We explore three recent comprehensive reforms which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the causal effect of access to quality education on house prices. Using property transaction records from Beijing in 2013 and 2016, we construct a balanced panel of...
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In this paper, we explore the impact of workers’ tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer …-employee data on private Belgian firms. We estimate a production function augmented with a firm-level measure of tenure. We deal … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The …
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, publication processes, employment opportunities, and promotion and tenure considerations, as well as recent developments related …
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-price, still vivid in many regions of the country, may provide incentives for parents to marry their daughter earlier, when faced …
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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