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Home win: What if Britain solved its housing crisis?

Niemietz, Kristian - 2024

This paper is written in the style of a report from the future (the year 2035), or more precisely, from a possible future, in which Britain has successfully solved its housing crisis. Looking 'back', it tells the story of how this happened, and what the consequences were. It starts with a...

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Dynamic speculative behaviors and mortgage bubbles in the real estate market of mainland China

Wang, Sheng - In: Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-54

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

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Land and Property Taxation in 25 Countries: A Comparative Review

Bird, Richard M.; Slack, Enid - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 3, pp. 34-42

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The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military

Greenberg, Kyle; Wasserman, Melanie; Weber, E. Anna - 2024

Do men negatively respond when women first enter an occupation? We answer this question by studying the end of one of … the causal effects of the introduction of female colleagues on men's job performance, behavior, and perceptions of … previously all-male units does not negatively affect men's performance or behavioral outcomes, including retention, promotions …

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Integrating refugees in the Rhine-Neckar-Region: Initial evidence from an inclusive soccer project

Berg, Gerard van den; Kolb, Michael; Lange, Martin; … - 2016

The study analyses data from a survey conducted in July 2016 in the German Rhine-Neckar region among a group of male refugees who participate in a small inclusive soccer project or are part of a control group. Our main findings with respect to labour market integration and the effect of program...

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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas: Evidence from the Philippines

Bresciani, F.; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2008

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...

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The gradual erosion of the social security function of customary land tenure arrangements in lineage-based societies

Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2002

Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....

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Risk heterogeneity and credit supply: Evidence from the mortgage market

Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - 2010

This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgage contracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modelled using quantile regressions. We propose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the tax treatment of housing...

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Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling

Galiani, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2010

Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...

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Institutions in development: Five essays on politics, property rights and prosperity

Markussen, Thomas - 2009

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