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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Perception and Reality of Crime Rates with Information
Ardanaz, Martín; Corbacho, Ana; Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety and …Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of …
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A Comparative Analysis on Subsidy Policies of China’s Public Housing Programmes: Evidence Based on Micro Surveys in Baoji
Yuan, Nannan - In: Journal of Reviews on Global Economics 3 (2014), pp. 340-348
To understand the effects of the public housing programme and measure the feasibility of subsidy policies, this study conducts a comparative analysis on the wealth effects of two of the main subsidy policies which are the selloriented policy1 (SOP) and rent-oriented policy2 (ROP), implemented in...
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Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and its Interaction with Public Policies
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based on Rosen’s (1974) two-step procedure consisting of...
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Low-Income Housing Finance in Colombia
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Camacho, Carolina; Fajardo, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of life and the quality of dwelling of the beneficiaries. Using the Quality of Life Surveys conducted...
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Are Uruguayan Housing Policies Reaching the Poor? An Assessment of Housing Deficit, Housing Informality and Usage of Housing Programs in Uruguay
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This document surveys the Uruguayan housing market, first describing the main housing programs and policies, then comparing their design with households’ characteristics and needs. The document additionally measures Uruguay’s housing deficit, using the basis deficit as well as quantitative...
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APROXIMACIÓN A UN INDICADOR REGIONAL Y NACIONAL DE LOS OBJETIVOS DE LISBOA A PARTIR DE LA MEDIDA DE DISTANCIA P2
SOMARRIBA ARECHAVALA, Noelia; PENA TRAPERO, Bernardo - In: Estudios Economicos de Desarrollo Internacional 8 (2008) 2, pp. 83-94
La Unión Europea se enfrenta a un enorme proceso de cambio que afecta a todos los ámbitos de la vida de las personas y exige una profunda transformación de la economía europea en coherencia con los valores y conceptos de la sociedad. La Unión en los conocidos como objetivos de Lisboa...
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Does housing allowance feed through into rental prices?
Viren, Matti - Suomen Pankki - 2011
This paper deals with the incidence of housing subsidies, which is analysed using Finnish panel data. The main data set comprises 50 000 households that received housing allowances during the period 2000–2008. In addition, we utilize repeated cross-sections of all Finnish households for...
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Low-Income Housing Policy
Collinson, Robert; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; Ludwig, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The United States government devotes about $40 billion each year to means-tested housing programs, plus another $6 billion or so in tax expenditures on the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). What exactly do we spend this money on, why, and what does it accomplish? We focus on these...
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We … differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a … decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental …
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A method to determine capitalization in small data samples
Kopsch, Fredrik - Institutionen för fastigheter och byggande, Kungliga … - 2013
Most policies regarding infrastructure or the built environment have an effect on real estate prices. While certain decisions have a positive effect, others have a negative one. Determining these effects is an important aspect of evaluating policy and can be done in several ways. The most...
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