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Román Culebro Martínez's Blog – July 2011 Archive (2)

HOUSE PRICES AND MARITAL STABILITY (By Farnham & Schmidt)

HousingPricesAndMaritalStability.pdf

"We investigate the effect of house price changes on MSA-level divorce rates using data for 1991-2010 from the Current Population Survey and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Our findings suggest that changing house prices significantly affect divorce rates, and that these effects are assymmetric with respect to housing gains versus losses.…

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Added by Román Culebro Martínez on July 4, 2011 at 8:49pm — 1 Comment

IMPORTANCIA ECONÓMICA DE LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS FONÉTICAS DEL IDIOMA ESPAÑOL (By Germán Coloma)

importancia_economica_de_las_caracteristicas.pdf

"This paper tries to quantify economically the importance of five phonetic characteristics (seseo, yeismo, /s/-aspiration, rehilamiento, and /x/-aspiration) whose presence or absence allows to distinguish among ten regional varieties of Spanish. To do that we perform an analysis of the extension of those…

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Added by Román Culebro Martínez on July 4, 2011 at 8:36pm — No Comments

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