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Research into financial exclusion in Rochdale - final technical report [PDF]
, 2011 This report presents the findings and recommendations of research conducted on the extent and nature of financial exclusion in ...
Dayson, KT, Vik, PM
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate +3 more
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MétropolesThe construction and management of social housing result from complex exchanges and negotiations between social housing providers and local authorities.
Marion Ille-Roussel
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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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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
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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 Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market
, 2012 This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of housing units they own within the same building. Multiple-dwelling
Combes, Pierre-Philippe +3 more
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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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Government centralization in late second and third century A.D. Asia Minor: a working hypothesis [PDF]
, 2009 This paper offers the working hypothesis that increased central government intervention in civic and provincial affairs in the late second- and third-century A.D.
Zuiderhoek, Andries Johan
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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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