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El efecto del gasto público en el déficit de vivienda en el Perú a nivel municipal
Libertun de Durén, Nora; Osorio Rivas, René - 2020
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How precious is the reliability of the residential electricity service in developing economies? Evidence from India
Perera, Pradeep; Sarker, Tapan; Nazmul Islam, K. M.; … - 2021
by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India …. The study used household survey data to assess the consumer attitudes, level of satisfaction, and affordability of … has increased from 12-13 hours per day before 2017 to 15-18 hours per day. By contrast, the affordability of the lifeline …
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Residential mobility of the European elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...
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Achievements and Challenges: 30 Years of Housing Reforms in the People's Republic of China
Gao, Lu - 2010
In the last three decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has managed to replace its welfare-based urban housing system with a market-based housing provision scheme. With such significant housing policy changes, the PRC has successfully expanded urban home ownership and impressively...
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Drivers and barriers to e-government adoption in Indian cities
Samuel, Mercy; Doctor, Gayatri; Christian, Perez; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 9 (2020) 4, pp. 408-417
barriers for adoption in a context of developing country. The study is limited to four cities in India. Technology adoption …
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Domestic and global economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures: How does Russia compare internationally?
Simola, Heli; Solanko, Laura - 2020
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Graphing and measuring Covid's first wave impact on the Bolivian economy
Barja Daza, Gover - 2021
The Bolivian monthly index of economic activity along with ARMA models are used in an attempt to graph and measure the impact of Covid's pandemic on the Bolivian economy. The accumulated difference between the observed and counterfactual values show an overall 12.6% loss of economic activity in...
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The fiscal and welfare effects of policy responses to the Covid-19 school closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Kurmann, André; … - 2021
Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...
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Lockdowns and the US unemployment crisis
Dreger, Christian; Gros, Daniel - 2021
We analyse the short-term impact of social distancing measures on the US labour market, using a panel threshold model with high frequency (weekly) data on unemployment across US states. We find that changes in the restrictiveness of mandated social distancing, as measured by the Oxford...
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Behavioral nudges prevent student dropouts in the pandemic
Lichand, Guilherme; Christen, Julien - 2021
School closures in the context of COVID-19 have been shown to magnify that problem, with at least seven million additional dropouts worldwide in 2020. Despite efforts from governments around the world to mitigate learning gaps by the time in-person classes return, interventions to motivate...
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