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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining

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This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that they had been renting from their state employers. [BREAD Working Paper No. 357]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/357.pdf].

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  • Shing-Yi Wang, 2012. "Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining," Working Papers id:5137, eSocialSciences.
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