Abstract:Recent decades have seen a strong commitment in development theory and practice toward the idea of promoting homeownership among low-income families, partly based on the idea that property formalization constitutes an important vehicle for social mobility and economic development. However, the empirical evidence on this theory is not conclusive. This paper aims to explore this idea using evidence from Chile, a country that has shown high success in moving low-income families from the informal to the formal hou… Show more
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