Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment

The benefits of pet ownership.

• Research shows that dog owners made 8% and cat owners 12% fewer visits to the doctor than non-pet owners in the previous year. • Pet owning pensioners make up to 21% fewer visits to the doctor than non-pet owners. • Children from households with pets have stronger immune systems and took fewer days off sick from school, receiving up to 18 extra half days schooling per year. This was most pron...

The edges of home ownership

This bulletin is based on research by Professor Gavin Wood and Dr Melek Cigdem at the AHURI Research Centre—RMIT University, Associate Professor Rachel Ong at the AHURI Research Centre—Curtin University and Professor Susan J. Smith at Cambridge University. The research sought to understand the pattern and circumstances in which households in mainstream home ownership churn in and out of home ow...

Determinants · of Home Ownership

Bringing the Benefits Home

If you read enough regional reports on international tech development, you start to suspect that somewhere someone has built a successful career on the power of search-and-replace. These reports are strikingly similar. They all have a uniform goal and identify the same elements of a global technology cluster: access to capital, an educated workforce, good infrastructure, a strong local market, ...

The benefits of pet ownership for children

Those working in veterinary practice will have encountered many children for whom animals have helped increase confidence. Children with low self-esteem may talk to, or confide in, an animal in ways they would not with people. They are often more confident in performing tasks they find difficult with an animal simply because the animal does not care if mistakes are made, nor will the child be a...