We evaluate a non-governmental housing microfinance intervention that attempts to improve conditions for low-income populations by simultaneously offering them labelled loan and non-financial technical support. Using household survey data from Kenya Uganda, we first show evidence the successful targeting of our loans because 95% clients used intended improvement. Second, results suggest access ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate housing conditions farmers’ households against background all in Poland and their changes after Poland’s accession European Union. assessment based on one-dimensional objective indicators standard use, equipment with technical sanitary facilities basic consumer goods, as well a multidimensional synthetic using TOPSIS method. Individual unidentifiable data fr...

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine conditions, tools and mechanisms necessary for statepolicy Ukraine provide Ukrainians with social housing during after war. Methods: studyused a set scientific methods, including generalization, theoretical methodological grouping, analysisand synthesis. Results: Based on analysis solutions in selected European countries sofar, conceptual apparatus gen...

Housing of pigs in barren, stimulus-poor housing conditions may influence their immune status, including antibody responses to (auto-)antigens, and thus affect immune protection, which will influence the onset and outcome of infection. In the present study, we investigated the effects of environmental enrichment versus barren housing on the level of natural (auto-)antibodies (NA(A)b) and their ...

Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction that individuals must be indifferent between owning and renting. This paper argues the predictions from ...

This study exploits an exogenous health shock—the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random—to investigate the effect of that shock on the family’s housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study that oversampled nonmarital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particular...

Poor housing may increase the risk of developing diabetes mellitus among middle-aged black Americans, suggests research published in the 15 August 2007 edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology. What exactly causes this link, however, remains to be explained. " Many factors linked with the development of diabetes, such as obesity or the use of alcohol or smoking, are commonly present in t...

Despite the plethora of reports that demonstrate plasticity in the mammalian cerebral cortex, the characterization of the cellular mechanisms that mediate it is sparse. Here, we show that the magnitude of the experience-dependent regulation of vesicular zinc is significantly increased through enriched-environment housing. Mice were reared either in a deprived environment and subsequently housed...

State-sponsored enterprise zones are a major economic development tool for over forty states. In many cases, the impact of these geographically targeted tax-based policies has never been evaluated. One roadblock to evaluation is the difficulty of controlling for the persistent effect of distressed local economic conditions while searching for possible programmatic effects. We examine the impact...