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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307317
job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …
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We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size, we compute housing by summing across the marginal products of non … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …
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with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant …
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investigations reveal that the gap in housing outcomes is much more pronounced for the probability of home ownership than for home … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are …
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higher levels of unemployment although home-owners tend to be unemployed less. The choice of housing tenure affects moving … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown …
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This paper analyses the net worth and asset portfolios of native- and foreign-born Australian families using HILDA (wave 2) data. Specifically, we estimate a system of asset equations with an adding-up constraint imposed to control for variation in households' total net worth. Our results...
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In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the …. Our model offers a new way to look at the housing market from a search-theoretic perspective. In addition, we contribute …
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