Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · September 1, 2024
Using loan-level data, this analysis considers the intersection of race, subprime home loans, and the current vacancy crisis in St. Louis, Missouri. Borrowers in Black areas in the north of St. Louis City and St. Louis County received subprime home loans a ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Regional Science · September 1, 2024
Using a novel geospatial panel combined with data from the 2015 American Community Survey (ACS), we investigate the effect of topography—altitude and terrain unevenness—on income segregation at the neighborhood level. Specifically, we perform large-scale c ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Economics · January 1, 2022
Patrilocal marriage–living in the husband’s natal household–affects Central Asian women and their choices in family planning, labor force participation, and human capital investment. While anthropological evidence suggests that elder household members play ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Economic Studies · June 1, 2021
Real housing prices have both surged and swooned in formerly socialist countries. We use 2000–2017 aggregate housing sales and rental price data from Kazakhstan to explore price movements during boom and stagnation eras, investigating the rent–price ratio’ ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Housing Economics · June 1, 2021
This paper explores patterns of real estate price movements in an emerging upper-middle income economy, Kazakhstan. The country experienced an explosive, 11-fold increase in real housing prices in urban areas between 2000 and 2007, followed by a sharp decl ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Housing Economics · December 1, 2019
This paper explores determinants of manufactured housing park (MHP) plot rents in North Carolina, with particular focus on the distinction among high-growth urban parks and small town/rural parks, and on the possible role played by zoning restrictiveness. ...
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Journal ArticleDemographic Research · July 1, 2019
BACKGROUND A significant proportion of women in the Kyrgyz Republic marry via ala kachuu, generally translated as bride capture or kidnapping. Many regard this practice as harmless elopement or a tradition; others perceive it as a form of forced marriage. ...
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Journal ArticleCentral Asian Survey · October 2, 2018
Throughout Eurasia, bride kidnapping continues to be a fairly common way to get married. The practice is becoming increasingly controversial. Some local actors argue the practice is a cultural tradition, while others question its acceptability, particularl ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics of Transition · October 1, 2018
This article is based on a panel discussion on the contribution of the economics of transition literature to the broader understanding of economic and social development. All panel participants have been working in the field for decades and made important ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Development Studies · September 2, 2017
There is ample empirical evidence that internal migration occurs in response to wage differentials; recently, evidence has emerged that international migration is deterred by rising destination uncertainty. However, to our knowledge, there has been no anal ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · October 31, 2016
A longstanding tradition of patrilocal marriage – living with the parents-in-law – affects every generation of Central Asian women and their choices regarding childbearing, employment and education. While anthropological evidence suggests that elder matria ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · October 31, 2016
Appendix to “Queen Bees and Domestic Violence: Patrilocal Marriage in Tajikistan,” available here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2862096. ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · October 15, 2016
This paper presents an analysis of elevation gradient and temporal future-station effects in urban real estate markets. Using an extraordinary dataset from the Hong Kong publicly-constructed housing sector, we find enormous housing price effects caused by ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics of Education Review · August 1, 2016
In the 1970s, the American Economic Association (AEA) was one of several professional associations to launch a summer program with the goal of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in its profession. In this paper we estimate the effectiveness of the AEA' ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · June 7, 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of hilliness effects in American urban communities. Using data from seventeen cities, robust relationships are established between elevation patterns and density and income gradients. We find that high-income ho ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · April 6, 2016
We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a peculiar form of marriage practiced in Central Asia, on child birth weight. The search for a suitable mate in a kidnapped marriage is initiated by the groom, and there is typically non-coerced consent only by the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England) · March 2016
BackgroundSubstantial proportions of US residents in the USA-Mexico border region cross into Mexico for health care; increases in violence in northern Mexico may have affected this access. We quantified associations between violence in Mexico and ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · December 30, 2015
How much does a dramatic increase in technology improve healthcare quality in an upper-middle income country? Using rich vital statistics data on infant and maternal health outcomes, this study evaluates the effect of introducing technologically advanced p ...
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OtherEconomic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · October 15, 2015
There are roughly 50,000 manufactured housing communities (MHCs) in the United States, yet there appears to be virtually no academic research on their asset values. Using a detailed, proprietary database provided by Colliers International, we address this ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health · August 2015
Many legal residents in the United States (US)-Mexico border region cross from the US into Mexico for medical treatment and pharmaceuticals. We analyzed whether recent increases in homicides in Mexico are associated with reduced healthcare access for US bo ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and human biology · January 2012
This paper examines determinants of being disabled in Russia, along with the probability of moving from one disability status to another, using data from 1994 through 2005 from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. Results from multinomial probit reg ...
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Journal ArticleDemographic Research · November 10, 2010
We provide three measures of age-standardized disability rates for each Russian region and show that most, though not all, of the regional patterns in disability prevalence disappear with standardization. Disability prevalence remains unusually high for wo ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · April 1, 2010
The UN Millennium Development Goals highlight the infant mortality rate (IMR) as a measure of progress in improving neonatal health and more broadly as an indicator of basic health care. However, prior research has shown that IMRs (and in particular perina ...
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Book · January 1, 2009
This book examines social security reform in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, with a focus on lessons for late reformers such as China and Russia. ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Black Political Economy · January 1, 2007
This paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country, and examines them from the perspective of two to five decades of hindsight. The paper emphasiz ...
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Journal ArticleEconomics and human biology · March 2005
This paper documents both the extraordinary rise in mortality that accompanied economic deterioration in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the far more tentative recovery. Kazakhstan's multi-ethnic population also makes it possible to id ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 2004
Dramatic demographic changes accompanied the decay and collapse of the Soviet Union. This paper considers their long-run economic effects, particularly with respect to impacts on government budgetary positions due to social transfers. Using a detailed actu ...
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Journal ArticleHitotsubashi Journal of Economics · January 1, 2004
Five years ago, Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension and social security system in order to move from an unsustainable public denned benefit ("solidarity") system to one of defined mandatory contributions (accumulative system). While ass ...
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Journal ArticleEurasian Geography and Economics · January 1, 2003
A team of population specialists from the United States and Kazakhstan uses heretofore unpublished data of the Kazakhstan Statistical Agency to assess gender and age differences in the propensity to migrate from Kazakhstan for the period 1991-2001. The int ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of African Policy Studies · May 2002
Historically, fertility in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has
been quite high, and in the past half century has declined
far more slowly than in most other parts of the world
(Locoh, 2002). Indeed, during the past three decades the
world as a whole has witne ...
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Journal Article,” Central Asian Journal of Management, Economics and Social Research · 2002
In order to judge the potential viability of a Credit
Bureau in the Republic of Kazakhstan, this study estimates
the number of credit applications during 2000-2001, and
projects changes through 2004. We assume that credit
applications provide a good in ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Economic Studies · October 2001
Despite a decade of transition, pension systems in
formerly socialist countries still desperately need viable
reform. This paper assesses reform packages advocated by
different international agencies, and considers their
sensitivity to varying economic ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Economic Development · December 2000
This paper investigates the role played by speculative
price bubbles in destabilizing food markets in Bangladesh
during the 1974 famine. The hypothesis of speculative
price bubbles in the rice market is tested using weekly
price data. These tests are ...
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Journal ArticleMost · December 1, 1999
Using data from household surveys of the Kyrgyz Republic, we explore determinants of pension receipt and wage employment as well as poverty and extreme poverty status. Data are taken from surveys in late 1993 (a period of extreme economic dislocation) and ...
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Chapter · December 1, 1999
The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic change in the way in which people live. Fifty years ago, only a small proportion of the less developed world lived in cities, and world poverty was overwhelmingly rural. In 1950, less than one-fifth of the pop ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 1998
This paper examines the pressures imposed by the vast pension system in the former Soviet republic of Kazakstan. Today, some 17% of the country receives pension payments, one of the highest rates in the world - despite the fact that Kazakstan is only now c ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 1998
This paper focuses on a narrow aspect of the demographic and health crisis in the former Soviet Union, examining the extent to which maternal behavior can compensate for poverty and poor medical conditions. Using sister hospital data form Bishkek, Kyrgyzst ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · November 1, 1998
This paper examines patterns of mortality and other demographic changes across the former Soviet Union. Using regional data from the early 1990s, a simultaneous equations model of fertility, marriage, divorce, infant mortality and abortion is estimated as ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of African economies · June 1996
"Rural-urban migration has been modeled by both demographers and economists since the 1960s. Little regard has been given by either discipline for the other's models.... The purpose of this paper is to address this void in the African context. We examine t ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · January 1, 1993
This article examines the appropriateness of neoclassical and rent-seeking models of urbanization for the African milieu and demonstrates that the reduced forms of these two models may be quite similar. The models are not observationally equivalent, howeve ...
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Journal ArticleWorld Development · January 1, 1990
This paper examines the available data on the incidence and spread of AIDS and the associated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Africa. Assessments of the impact of the spread of AIDS on African population growth and economic performance are then offer ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · January 1, 1987
This paper examines the relationship between measures of urban sector inequality and economic development for a sample of 25 developing and newly industrialized countries. A U-shaped relationship is found in which bottom urban quintiles' income shares init ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Development & Cultural Change · January 1, 1987
This paper uses a multisectoral model of the Indian economy to isolate the sources of Indian economic growth and urbanization since 1960. it stresses spatial issues so that it can provide predictions on rural/urban labor demands, which, when combined with ...
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Journal ArticleIndian journal of quantitative economics · January 1986
"This paper analyzes a multi-sectoral simulation model of the Indian economy designed to isolate the sources of Indian economic growth and urbanization since 1960. The model shares many common traits with other computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulat ...
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ConferenceModeling and Simulation, Proceedings of the Annual Pittsburgh Conference · December 1, 1984
This paper investigates the impact of changes in sectoral productivity on output and employment patterns in a simulation model of the Indian economy. Productivity gains in major urban sectors are found to have fairly strong urban growth effects both in the ...
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Journal ArticleStudies in Environmental Science · December 1, 1984
Soviet growth has placed heavy demands on its water resources. As in capitalist countries, rapid economic development has been accompanied by declines in the quality of the USSR's natural resources. Plans to continue high rates of investment ensure that th ...
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