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Replication Data for: Analyses of effects of the integrated housing and development programme in Ethiopia

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Title Replication Data for: Analyses of effects of the integrated housing and development programme in Ethiopia
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HYTXPN
 
Creator Bjerrum Andersen, Asbjørn Goul
Getahun, Tigabu
Kotsadam, Andreas
Somville, Vincent
Villanger, Espen
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Assessing the causal impact of wealth on attitudes and well-being is a challenging task, since an individual’s economic situation may depend on unobserved characteristics which are likely to be correlated with such outcomes. We overcome this challenge by exploiting the exogenous variation in wealth created by a housing lottery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which randomly allocates the right to purchase an apartment among low-income applicants. Since the apartments are sold at highly subsidized rates, winners of the lottery experience a substantial boost to long-term wealth. We focus on the causal effects of winning the lottery on three separate domains: (i) changes in attitudes toward redistribution and meritocratic beliefs, (ii) charitable giving and (iii) economic and psychological well-being.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Mental health
Redistribution
Inequality
Charitable giving
Housing
 
Date 2024-03-06
 
Contributor FAIR NHH