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In: Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 159-167, 2010
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Beschreibung:
We exploit a natural experiment in Montevideo, Uruguay, in order to analyse the effects on human health of granting formal property rights to untitled individuals. Because of administrative mistakes committed decades ago by an institution that no longer exists, such rights may be transferred to residents of some neighborhoods but not to residents of others. We found that titling reduces the probability of suffering from hypertension and diabetes and in some cases rheumatism and asthma as well within seventeen years of being offered property rights, but we did not find statistically significant evidence that the housing quality functions as a channel between titling and health