The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households’ welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper illustrates the long-lasting distortions in the rental market that the 1977 rental law has created. The paper finds evidence that earlier studies may have substantially underestimated households’ welfare...
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2017/07/01
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工作文件（编号系列）
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125563
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2018/04/23
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Rental regulation and its consequences on measures of well-being in the Arab Republic of Egypt
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Poverty and Equity