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We study how households choose neighborhoods, how neighborhoods affect child ability, and how housing vouchers influence neighborhood choices and child outcomes. We use two new panel data sets with tract-level detail for Los Angeles county to estimate a dynamic model of optimal tract-level...
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on the community-based management of the pastures in Ethiopia. The paper analyzes the changes that the traditional … institutions for pasture management in Ethiopia are experiencing by applying Elinor Ostrom's design principles, while trying to …
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This paper examines the impact of agrarian structures on the migration behavior and destination of rural household … heads and individuals in Kenya. To explore the complexity of migration we extend the standard Harris-Todaro framework to … also consider rural-to-rural migration. Using logistic regressions, we show that Kenyan household heads born in districts …
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, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and …
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This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing markets and moving costs in determining the character and extent of labor reallocation in the US economy. Labor reallocation in the model is driven by idiosyncratic city-specific...
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Using unique Swedish micro data we examine the impact of local public services on community choice. The choice of community is modeled as a choice between a discrete set of alternatives. The US literature has produced conflicting evidence with respect to the importance of local public services....
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his paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …
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This paper examines the political economy of Russian city growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand the...
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
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This paper determines how individual, relative to community, social capital affects individual migration decisions. We … confirm that higher individual social capital is a negative predictor of migration. …
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