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Very interesting, though I wonder how much of it is housing vs. simply a wealth effect.
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Geez, are you a professional economist or something?
They should have given the one group a housing voucher and the other cash, but then you'd have to control for how much of the cash was spent on housing.
Alternatively, they could have done some sort of intent to treat design and just teach one group how to use real estate sites, fill out housing paperwork, etc. Then, if that group used more housing attribute the difference to the intervention and proceed from there.
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Ah, but is the program scalable?
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Who cares? We're dispassionate scientists, not political activists.
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I’ll take one house please.
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Sorry, you got randomized into the group that only gets training on how to use real estate websites and fill out paperwork
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Do you think this only applies to Brazil, or could it be true in other countries?
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The cause and effect sound intuitive to me (which is not enough to prove a theory ofc) but therefore I assume it to be universal.
Someone in another comment here mentioned nuclear vs kinship families. Which might be an interesting aspect to investigate
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Nah, I'm stupid lmao. Brazilian culture would have been exactly the kind of culture I was talking about. I just assumed the paper was talking about western (UK, US Australia) family culture of 1 couple and their children per household.
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I don't think that's the only factor but surely plays a big role in family formation.
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In large part thanks to currency debasement and people using real estate as an inflation hedge and investment, when bitcoin is what they need.
Predictably all the politicians can do is suggest more taxes .
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Not at all surprising. Luckily Bitcoin fixes this.
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Yup! Spread the joy!
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fuck, that's a nice paper. Gotta dive in
@remindme in 2 days
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Makes pefect sense to me.
I imagine that less than 50 years ago the difference would be that Access to Capital would replace Access to Credit.
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So free housing for everyone to save the fertility rate!
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