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Housing Disparity between Homeowners and Renters: Evidence from China
This paper examines whether there is housing disparity between homeowners and renters. Using data from Chinese Urban Household Survey, we find that homeowners on average have much higher housing quality than r...
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Four Limit Cycles for a Rock-Scissor-Paper Game Between Bacteriocin Producing Bacteria
In this paper, four limit cycles are constructed for a concrete 3D model of rock-scissor-paper (RSP) game between bacteriocin producing bacteria. This gives not only an affirmative answer to the conjecture of ...
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China’s Housing Reform and Labor Market Participation
The 1994–1998 housing reform in China allowed state employees to buy their rented public houses at considerably subsidized prices. By exploiting housing reform as an exogenous change in homeownership and emplo...
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Rental housing types and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from Chinese superstar cities
Considerable attention has been paid to the role of homeownership in affecting individuals’ subjective wellbeing in previous literature. This study focuses on renters and examines the heterogeneity of the asso...
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The paradox of housing demolition and life satisfaction: evidence from urban China
In the rapid urban transformation era, housing demolition has posed risk towards non-market value such as life satisfaction of residents in line with most of previous literatures. However, our empirical work s...
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The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective
Immigrants came from different countries exhibit a high diversity in self-employment rates, making it vital to identify the sources of this diversity. Drawing on the linguistic relativity theory and imprinting...
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Amenities, Housing Affordability, and Education Elites
Education Elites (i.e., higher-educated people) with new ideas and technologies are widely acknowledged to be a source of innovation and the engine of regional economic growth. A city that can attract higher-e...
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The Burden of Social Connectedness: Do Escalating Gift Expenditures Make You Happy?
Gift expenses escalated in China in the last decades with rapid economic growth and account for a substantial share of household expenditures. Rising gift expenses signal good friendships and facilitate recipr...
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Homeownership and household formation: no homeownership, no marriage?
This study examines the homeownership effect on the likelihood of marriage. Benefits brought by homeownership are highlighted in existing research. Specifically, owning a house may increase one’s attractivenes...
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Home Ownership and Subjective Wellbeing: A Perspective from Ownership Heterogeneity
This study examines the relationship between home ownership status and individual subjective wellbeing in urban China. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey, this study finds that home ownership is...
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What types of homeowners are more likely to be entrepreneurs? The evidence from China
This paper highlights a previously undocumented observation regarding the heterogeneity of the association between entrepreneurship and homeownership across ownership through different pathways. Our empirical ...