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Cocaine CitiesThe relationship between the cocaine trade and urban land markets in South America has been overlooked by the mainstream economics and urban studies literature. This paper examines two avenues through which the cocaine trade can have a large impact...
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Habitat II and the Urban EconomyThe strategic conferences organized by the UN during the past 25 years have focused on assisting and mobilizing governments and other relevant actors of international life by enhancing collective thinking and action in those areas which may...
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Lofty pine and clinging vineWe investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on this of house price appreciation. Using the China Household Finance Survey 2011, we construct household history of property...
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Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban InequalityUsing China as a test case, this paper empirically investigates how the development of financial intermediation affects rural-urban income disparity (RUID). Using 20-year province level panel data, we find that the level of financial development is...
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Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global ContextHousing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries. The special characteristics of housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the monetary...
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The Scale and Nature of International Donor Assistance to Housing, Basic Services and Other Human-Settlements Related ProjectsThis paper describes the scale and nature of development assistance to projects that sought to improve housing and living conditions for low income groups, including housing-related infrastructure and services such as water supply, sanitation and...
Journal Article
The intergenerational impact of house prices on educationWe investigate heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission of education and the impact on this of house prices. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we construct household history of property pur-chases and educational investment...
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Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in TransitionAll countries in transition experienced increases in inequality. They have also undertaken massive privatization of key asset housing, often on give-away terms. Are these two phenomena related? Has transfer of ownership rights to residents slowed...
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The Face of Urban PovertyOne of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the...
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Parsing the Urban Poverty PuzzleThis paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to ‘opening...
Book Chapter
Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in TransitionPart of Book Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Book Chapter
Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global ContextPart of Book Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Book Chapter
An Analysis of Appropriate Government Housing Policies in Market EconomiesPart of Book Urbanization