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1. Effects of Plans on Urban Development in Beijing

   Do They Contain Growth?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Shih-Kung Lai and Haoying Han

   The setting of urban construction boundaries (UCBs) through the imposition of comprehensive master plans (CMPs) is commonly practiced in Chinese cities. However, the effectiveness of UCBs in...

2. Public Housing and Unemployment in Postindustrial Hong Kong

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Paavo Monkkonen

   The impact of living in public rental housing on employment has been the subject of substantial debate internationally. Restrictions on residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and the place-based...

3. New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution Between Land and Capital

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Daniel P. McMillen

   We reconcile conflicting evidence on the magnitude of the elasticity of substitution between land and capital, which is a key determinant of the relationship between the price of land and the density...

4. Competition and Property Tax Limit Overrides

   Revisiting Massachusetts’ Proposition 2 ½
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Zackary B. Hawley and Jonathan C. Rork

   This paper looks at the role of spatial proximity of other town’s decision to hold an override vote on the decision of a Massachusetts town to hold an initial override vote under Proposition 2...

5. Should Beijing Control the Influx of Migrants?

   A Labor Market Analysis Using the 2010 Census
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2014
   Chengdong Yi, Youqing Huang, and Chuan Zhang

   Beijing has experienced an influx of migrants in the last decade. According to the latest 2010 census, migrants without local household registration accounted for more than one third of 19.6 million...

6. Local Government Finances During and After the Great Recession

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2014
   Adam H. Langley

   The 2007-2009 recession had a large and long-lasting impact on local government finances in the United States. This paper describes these impacts using existing research and a variety of data sources...

7. Lessons from the Ground Up

   Approaches to Squatter Settlements
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2014
   Julio Calderón Cockburn

   In this article, the author identifies the lessons that can be learned from the strategies of residents of squatter settlements, when faced with the implementation of urban planning policies in Latin...

8. Loss of Plot Formality Through Unregistered Transactions

   Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Peru
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2014
   Oswaldo Molina

   Titling programs are considered by policymakers as an effective instrument for reducing poverty in developing countries. However, they have focused only on the process of granting the title; but have...

9. Residential Wealth and Its Distribution in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region

   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2014
   David M. Vetter, Kaizô I. Beltrão, and Rosa M. R. Massena

   Given the importance of housing as a component of a household’s net worth and of aggregate national wealth, we ask: What variables determine housing value in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan...

10. Regeneración focalizada en integración social de vecindarios formales de pobres en grandes ciudades chilenas

    Documentos de trabajo
    Julio 2014
    Camilo Arriagada Luco

    Chile es un país que logro producir gran cantidad de viviendas en los años noventa y reducir su déficit habitacional y que desde el año 2006 desarrolla instrumentos de...