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What broke first? Characterizing sources of structural change prior to the great recession
Hull, Isaiah - 2015
This paper identifies and characterizes episodes of structural change in the 27 years that preceded the Great Recession. This is done by performing Bai-Perron (2003a, 2003b) tests on 61,843 time series that span 34 countries, which collectively accounted for 81% of Gross World Product in 2013....
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China
Fu, Shihe; Liao, Yu; Zhang, Junfu - 2016
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on … homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of other homes in the same community as an … instrument for the housing capital gains of a given household, we find that a 100 thousand yuan increase in housing value leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479263
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Heterogeneity in households' expectations of housing prices: Evidence from micro data
Hjalmarsson, Erik; Österholm, Pär - 2019
Expectations about future housing prices are arguably an important determinant of actual housing prices, and an … important input in decisions on whether and how to transact in the housing market. Using novel micro-level survey data on … Swedish households, we analyse households' expectations of housing prices and how these expectations relate to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182845
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Häusliches Umfeld in der Krise: Ein Teil der Kinder braucht mehr Unterstützung. Ergebnisse einer Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2020
In der Corona-Krise hat das häusliche Lebensumfeld für die Aktivitätsmöglichkeiten und Entwicklungschancen der Kinder in Deutschland stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei stellt sich die Lage hier in den meisten Fällen gut dar, wie eine eigene Auswertung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)...
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It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2020
As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We study interactions of parenting style and peer...
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Analiza procesu konwergencji wydatków na żywność gospodarstw domowych w Polsce
Muller-Fraczek, Iwona; Muszynska, Joanna; Pietrzak, … - 2013
This paper presents an analysis of expenditure on food of households in Poland in the years 1999-2010. Since their level and dynamics can be used as a measure of well-being of society this process was used to examine internal social convergence of regions, in this case the voivodeships. The aim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232227
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The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobility and Traffic Accidents: Evidence from Louisiana
Barnes, Stephen R.; Beland, Louis-Philippe; Huh, Jason; … - 2020
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents. Based on data from Google Community Mobility reports and Uniform Traffic Crash Report from the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Develop- ment (LaDOTD), we find that...
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The role of credit guarantee schemes for financing MSMEs: Evidence from rural and urban areas in Indonesia
Wardhono, Adhitya; Modjo, Mohamad Ikhsan; Utami, Eka Wahyu - 2019
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) play a significant role in the Indonesian economy, however most MSMEs have difficulties in accessing finance. The Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) is a popular program for guaranteeing bank lending to MSMEs by the government. The objective of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254949
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Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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The Health Consequence of Rising Housing Prices in China
Xu, Yuanwei; Wang, Feicheng - 2020
and temporal variation in housing price appreciation linked to individual-level health data in China from 2000 to 2011. We … find robust evidence that increases in housing prices significantly raise the probability of residents having chronic …. Further empirical results suggest that housing price appreciation induces negative health consequences through increased work …
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