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Who invests in home equity to exempt wealth from bankruptcy? : [This draft: May 2013] [PDF]
, 2013 Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios towards home equity.
Corradin, Stefano +3 more
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate: The impact of mortgage equity withdrawal [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the ...
Antonio Paradiso +45 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Although the prevalence of child stunting is falling in Latin America, socioeconomic inequalities persist. However, there is limited evidence on ethnic disparities.
Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez +3 more
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Debt, Equity and the Equity Price Puzzle [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 We show that in a model with equity and debt financing, the specification of the borrowing constraint is crucial to generate empirically plausible responses of macro variables and asset prices to financial shocks. The interaction between financial frictions and labor demand, as in Jermann and Quadrini (2012), is key to the result.
Finocchiaro, Daria, Mendicino, Caterina
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background Sex work criminalization and occupational stigma pose barriers to sex workers’ access to support services, including community participation — engagement with sex work specific community organizing at both formalized and grassroots capacities.
Jennie Pearson +6 more
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Podoconiosis instruction at nursing schools in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2022 Background Podoconiosis is a preventable, progressive, and non-infectious form of elephantiasis that can contribute to significant disability and economic burden when not treated early. Nurses play a critical role in early detection and response in rural
Lilian Nantume Wampande +5 more
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The Ground on Which We All Stand: A Conversation About Menstrual Equity Law and Activism [PDF]
, 2020 This essay grows out of a panel discussion among five lawyers on the subject of menstrual equity activism. Each of the authors is a scholar, activist or organizer involved in some form of menstrual equity work.
Crawford, Bridget J. +4 more
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The Efficiency of Equity [PDF]
Review of Political Economy, 2008 Abstract In standard neoclassical economics, efficiency and equity issues are largely treated as separate and separable issues. While this has been challenged within and outside the neoclassical tradition for some time, this paper argues that four recent strands of literature largely within the neoclassical tradition provide a solid empirical ...
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Research Involvement and Engagement, 2018 Background Randomized controlled trials (“randomized trials”) can provide evidence to assess the equity impact of an intervention. Decision makers need to know about equity impacts of healthcare interventions so that people get healthcare that is best ...
Janet Jull +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic exposes and amplifies pre-existing inequalities even in places with relatively well-controlled outbreaks such as Hong Kong. This study aimed to explore whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged fare worse via various types of ...
Roger Yat-Nork Chung +8 more
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