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The consequences of extending equitable property division divorce laws to cohabitants

Chigavazira, Abraham; Fisher, Hayley; Robinson, Tim; … - 2019

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …

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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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Life cycle saving and dissaving revisited across three-tiered income groups : starting hypotheses, refinement through literature review, and ideas for empirical testing

Holzmann, Robert; Ayuso, Mercedes; Alaminos, Estefanía; … - 2019

The lifecycle approach is the workhorse to model saving decisions of individuals. It conjectures individuals preferring a constant consumption stream across their lifecycle saving till retirement and dis-saving thereafter. The reality is often at odd with this assumption giving rise to our...

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Ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership

Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara Helena; Gaalen, Ruben van - 2014

This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for individual and parental background and neighbourhood conditions. Subsequently, the size of explained...

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When do nations tax? : the adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada

Feir, Donna; Jones, Maggie; Scoones, W. David - 2022

Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of …

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