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Field Experiment Tests for Discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. Rental Housing Market [PDF]
, 2014 This article tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market using e-mail correspondence with landlords advertising units online.
Hanson, Andrew, Santas, Michael
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Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics (monopolist capture).
Anna F. Callis, Christopher L. Carter
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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Incentives, supervision, and sharecropper productivity [PDF]
Although sharecropping has long fascinated economists, the determinants of this contractual form are still poorly understood and the debate over the extent of moral hazard is far from settled.
Jacoby, Hanan G., Mansuri, Ghazala
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Tipping the Scales: A Report of the Tenant Experiences in Bronx Housing Court [PDF]
, 2013 Every day, about 2,000 tenants go through Bronx Housing Court. Most are low-income people of color who have limited resources and cannot afford a lawyer to help them navigate the confusing court system.
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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Seeing like a citizen: Experimental evidence on how empowerment affects engagement with the state
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Building a strong and effective state requires revenue. Yet, in many low‐income countries, citizens do not make formal payments to the state or forego engaging with the state altogether due to vulnerability to opportunistic demands by state agents. We study two randomized interventions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, designed to
Soeren J. Henn +4 more
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Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the modalities of appearing, suspending and filtering to analyse how bodies are made to perform, endure and navigate legal processes.
Sarah Klosterkamp
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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur +2 more
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New Zealand Medical Student JournalThe housing crisis in New Zealand poses severe health risks, particularly for children and vulnerable populations. Approximately 20% of homes are damp, cold, or mouldy, contributing to respiratory problems and hospitalisations.
Gabrielle Ou
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