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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...
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Government social protection and households' welfare during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa
Zhou, Sheunesu; Ayandibu, Ayansola Olatunji; … - In: Journal of business and socio-economic development 3 (2023) 4, pp. 308-321
Purpose - This study evaluates the impact of government social protection interventions on households' welfare in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses survey data comprising 393 observations and the multinomial logistic regression technique to analyse the effect of...
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Social Programs and Formal Employment : Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna - 2020
Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828218
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One crisis after another? : how much has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted opinions on welfare-state priorities
Ryšavý, Dan - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 1-11
has held back for years. In the case of housing the state's role has declined sharply since 1989, and the expectation that … housing is the private responsibility of each individual and his or her family has strengthened over time as has the … homeownership norm. Many measures introduced in the acute phase of the pandemic related in some way to housing and housing quality …
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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Income tax deduction of commuting expenses and tax funding in an urban CGE study: the case of German cities
Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2011
Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228938
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Should subsidies to urban passenger transport be increased? : A spatial CGE analysis for a German metropolitan area
Tscharaktschiew, Stefan; Hirte, Georg - 2011
The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency, distributional, environmental (CO2 emissions) and spatial effects of increasing different kinds of transport subsidies discriminating between household types, travel purposes and travel modes. The effects are calculated by applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228941
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Should Subsidies to Urban Passenger Transport be Increased? A Spatial CGE Analysis for a German Metropolitan Area
Hirte, Georg - 2014
The objective of this paper is to examine efficiency, distributional, environmental (CO2 emissions) and spatial effects of increasing different kinds of transport subsidies discriminating between household types, travel purposes and travel modes. The effects are calculated by applying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068562
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The Impact of the 2001 Financial Crisis and the Economic Policy Responses on the Argentine Mortgage Market
Agarwal, Sumit - 2005
Following the 2001 financial crisis, the government of Argentina instituted economic policies to soften the adverse impact of the crisis on the economy. In this paper, we use loan-level data to empirically assess the impact of the currency devaluation and the economic response policies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784515
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Affordable Housing and City Welfare
Favilukis, Jack Y - 2019
Housing affordability is the main policy challenge for many large cities in the world. Zoning changes, rent control …, housing vouchers, and tax credits are the main levers employed by policy makers. But how effective are they at combatting the … the New York MSA, incorporating current zoning and affordable housing policies. Housing affordability policies carry …
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