JEL classification: R21 R31 Construction quality is a major problem in China's housing market. We investigate whether the housing market could provide incentives to encourage developers to promote construction quality beyond the compulsory, minimum standards by testing the financial viability of efforts made in this field by developers. This study takes place in the city of Beijing, where the “...

BACKGROUND In malaria-endemic areas, residents of modern houses have less malaria than those living in traditional houses. This study will determine if modern housing provides incremental protection against clinical malaria over the current best practice of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and prompt treatment in The Gambia, determine the incremental cost-effectiveness of the intervention...

Survey researchers and practitioners use nonresponse adjustment weights to mitigate the effects of survey nonresponse on sample estimates. One challenge in creating these weights is finding useful auxiliary data that predict both the probability of participating in the survey and the survey variables of interest. This article reviews the use of paradata for nonresponse adjustment. Five differen...

This is a most worth-while volume, that should be read by social workers in particular and humanitarians in general. Within small bulk, it lays bare, without offence to those who are labouring now in this field, the great need of the inhabitants of Common Lodging Houses, to be understood in the first place, and to be given the help they so sorely need, in the second. The survey is well planned,...

Consumers Union assessed the financial appreciation of manufactured-housing units, by examining the relative appreciation rates of manufactured housing and site-built housing, as well as the factors affecting the appreciation rate of manufactured housing. Our analysis includes an extensive literature review of previous work in the field, as well as primary research using data from the 1985–1999...

PHP289 A SyStemAtic Review of tHe imPAct of imPRoved HouSing inteRventionS on HeAltH in low And middle income tRoPicAl SettingS Butt T1, Von Seidlein L2 1University College London, London, UK, 2Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand Objectives: Housing has a major impact on human health and wellbeing in the developing world directly (e.g. through household accidents) ...