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Bank branch access: Evidence from geolocation data

Sakong, Jung; Zentefis, Alexander K. - 2023

Low-income and Black households are less likely to visit bank branches than high-income and White households, despite the former two groups appearing to rely more on branches as means of bank participation. We assess whether unequal branch access can explain that disparity. We propose a measure...

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Housing wealth and wage bargaining

Cunningham, Chris; Reed, Robert R. - 2012

We examine the relationship between housing equity and wage earnings. We first provide a simple model of wage … home. We test this prediction using nine waves of the national American Housing Survey. Employing a rich set of time and …

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The economics of parenting

Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2019

Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices people make throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and how parents' actions affect their children. In recent...

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Who emits CO₂? Landscape of ecological inequalities in France from a critical perspective

Pottier, Antonin; Combet, Emmanuel; Cayla, Jean-Michel; … - 2021

household CO2 emissions linked to housing and transport energy. For transport, emissions are proportional to the distance … access to less carbon-intensive modes of transport. For housing, while the size of the dwelling increases with income and …

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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 character …

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"Stand by me": Unveiling the value of own and others' mental illness

Andrén, Daniela - 2024

This paper calculates the value of experiencing mental illness, either directly or indirectly through knowing someone near, family, or friends (NFF), who is affected. Using the well-being valuation method, which explores the trade-offs between income and self-reported experiences that maintain...

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Impatience and crime: Evidence from the NLSY97

Basiglio, Stefania; Foresta, Alessandra; Turati, Gilberto - 2021

We empirically test the relationship between crime and impatience at the individual level exploiting data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). Besides providing information on both violent and property crimes, NLSY97 allows to observe different behaviors sharing...

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Trust in Banks? Evidence from normal times and from times of crises

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Trust in financial institutions is of great importance for financial intermediation. Against this background, we study two questions: Has trust in banks declined during the global financial crisis and what factors determine the level of trust in banks? Employing survey evidence from Austrian...

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The functions of wealth: renters, owners and capitalists across Europe and the United States

Fessler, Pirmin; Schürz, Martin - 2018

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality. Specifically, he suggests that social classes should be analyzed in terms of the power and production relations between social groups, not just the percentiles in statistical...

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A model of social duties

Ellingsen, Tore; Mohlin, Erik - 2022

We develop a formal model of social duties. Duties to respect entitlements (duties of justice) differ from duties to promote well-being (duties of charity). A situationspecific version of our model takes entitlements as primitives. A fully portable version derives entitlements from situational...

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