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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk … from non-migrants in risk and ambiguity preferences elicited using pairs of lotteries; however, migrants are significantly … competitive environment than by risk attitudes under state uncertainty …
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Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle …
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China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U … households, respectively, to raise their saving rates. These two factors account for over half of the increase in China's urban …
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Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...
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characterize the food risk level for each property. First, we compare trends in housing values and sales activity among properties … within the same city. Despite the heightened food risk in the last two decades, we did not find evidence of divergent trends …, suggesting that food insurance may have cushioned the effects of the increase in food risk.Secondly, we analyze the effects of …
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also the case for houses that were not damaged but face high risk of coastal flooding. Our results suggest that Sandy has … increased the perceived risk of living in those neighborhoods. We also show that the negative effects on housing prices appear …
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I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it to assess annual migration flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990...
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For most people, buying a home is their single largest financial commitment. Previous research shows that Chinese buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer...
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centuries from today is new to the empirical literature on discounting and, with the appropriate risk adjustment, of relevance …
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