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methodological approach. -- gender ; assets ; asset accumulation ; urban … time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement …
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …'s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two … characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps … due to both characteristics in Ecuador for the period 2003-2007, applying a matching comparisons technique developed in …
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Social norms can mitigate the effectiveness of formal institutions, in particular the way legal reforms may affect women's autonomy. We examine this question in the context of ethnic variation in traditional post-marital cohabitation, i.e. matrilocality versus patrilocality. We use...
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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There has been a considerable amount of work focusing on job satisfaction and sex, generally finding that women are more satisfied than men despite having objectively worse job conditions. But there is little evidence on whether job satisfaction differs by race or ethnicity. We use data from the...
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by 40 percent and others being particularly effective for minority women. The heterogeneities we find by gender, race …
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We test for racial discrimination in the prices charged by mortgage lenders. We construct a unique dataset where we observe all three dimensions of a mortgage's price: the interest rate, discount points, and fees. While we find statistically significant gaps by race and ethnicity in interest...
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We test for racial discrimination in the prices charged by mortgage lenders. We construct a unique dataset where we observe all three dimensions of a mortgage's price: the interest rate, discount points, and fees. While we find statistically significant gaps by race and ethnicity in interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849876
Before 2018, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data did not include credit factors, such as credit score, debt-to-income ratio, or loan-to-value ratio, typically used by lenders to make loan decisions. HMDA data also did not include important pricing information, such as discount points and...
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