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Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality. Results are robust to the inclusion of various shocks...

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Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality

Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

find that villagers' beliefs do contain real information, and that villagers are sophisticated enough to distinguish … activity. This paper examines the accuracy of these perceptions by comparing Indonesian villagers' stated beliefs about … between corruption in a particular road project and general corruption in the village. The magnitude of their information …

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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The Housing Crisis and Bankruptcy Reform: The Prepackaged Chapter 13 Approach

Posner, Eric A; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The housing crisis threatens to destroy hundreds of billions of dollars of value by causing homeowners with negative equity to walk away from their houses. A house in foreclosure is worth 30 to 50 percent less than a house that a homeowner either retains or sells on the market, and a foreclosed...

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Modelling and Forecasting UK Mortgage Arrears and Possessions

Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears (payment delinquencies). The innovations include the treatment of difficult to observe variations in loan quality and shifts in forbearance policy by lenders, by common latent...

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The Impact Of Active Labour Market Policies And Benefit Entitlement Rules On The Duration Of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C van; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In the evaluation we allow for selectivity affecting the...

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Immigrant Participation in Social Assistance Programs: Evidence from German Guestworkers

Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The share of immigrants in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow. This study evaluates the causes of this phenomenon and tests for the effects of assimilation, cohort, age at migration, and country of origin on immigrant behaviour. It uses...

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Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by exhausting entitlement to benefit. Two questions follow. First, what are the implications of the cessation of UI for living standards? Second, does UI exhaustion have much...

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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programs: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Caeyers, Bet; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Despite increasingly large scale social protection programs in Africa, we have limited evidence on the local political economy of their allocation. We investigate community-based processes for food aid allocation and the role of political and social networks, using the case of Ethiopia in the...

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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Amarante, Veronica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children’s birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in...

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