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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"housing characteristics"”.
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Housing Market Choice Patterns of Single Women Homeowners
Housing researchers are aware of the lower homeownership rates and other housing problems of single women but there is very little research focusing on single women homeowners or the characteristics of the housing they buy. Also, since a wide body of research can be found that examines determinants …
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… and owner reported home value using American Housing Survey data. A hedonic price model is developed in order to isolate the impact of home energy use on the owner’s perceived market value of the home. In order to limit the impact of fixed housing characteristics on the model, the fixed effect …
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Homeowner Views on Housing Market Valuation of Energy Efficiency: An Empirical Investigation
… and owner reported home value using American Housing Survey data. A hedonic price model is developed in order to isolate the impact of home energy use on the owner’s perceived market value of the home. In order to limit the impact of fixed housing characteristics on the model, the fixed effect …
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HUD impact on residential property values
… foreclosed properties sold by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sell for the same price as properties which have similar characteristics. A hedonic price model is employed to observe changes in sales prices related to housing characteristics within a sample of homes from Las …
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Three essays on urban economics
… first chapter investigates the role of postwar housing characteristics in neighborhood decline. Extant literature hypothesizes that postwar vintage specific housing characteristics are contributing more to observations of decline than general housing age as the postwar home is no longer aligned …
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A comparative study of condominium and single family house price appreciation in the Salt Lake Valley
… of ownership affects the appreciation rate of housing units. The specific test conducted is whether condominiums and single family homes in the Salt Lake Valley have appreciated at the same rate over the past six and a half years. To test this hypothesis, a sample of 10,134 condominium and …
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A finite mixture approach for household residential choices
In the housing sector, on the demand side, attempts to characterize the nature of housing demand have been primarily implemented through hedonics whereby hedonic price functions relate market value to residential housing stock. Hedonic price models, however, do not identity sub-markets and thus may …
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Exploring the Relationship of Urban Form and Mental Health in the 500 Largest Cities of the United States
… have investigated the effects of urban form characteristics (size, density, nuisances, transportation, and housing characteristics) and mental health measures at the city level. Using 2014 data from the 500 largest cities in the United States, this thesis evaluates the relationship between …
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Residential Interior Environments of Retired Government Employees in Thailand
… questionnaire which included questions about housing characteristics, interior environment features, personal information, health condition, and activity level. The mean age of the older adults was 68.1 and ranged from 60 to 93 years. The data were analyzed using frequencies, percentages, and …
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Linking Environmental Factors To Vector Abundance And Malaria Incidence: A Multi-Model Investigation Of Disease Ecology.
… 1 investigated the impact of environmental and housing structure on malaria infection, as measured by rapid diagnostic tests, in Sussundenga Village, Mozambique. Results demonstrated that microenvironmental conditions such as landcover type (grassland and cropland) and housing characteristics …
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Analysis of Post-Sandy Single-Family Housing Market in Staten Island, New York
Recent hurricanes have made it clear that housing is the single greatest component of all losses in terms of economic value and buildings damaged. Housing damage resulting from floods has increased in the United States, despite local, state and federal encouragement to mitigate flood hazards and …
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Migrant remittances, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and energy poverty in Sri Lanka
… income, household wealth, household head’s characteristics (age, marital status and education), education of spouse, household characteristics (household size and number of children under 5), housing characteristics (number of bedrooms, drinking water source, and housing material), and …
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
… conditioning on a rich set of demographic and housing characteristics and measures of flood risk information and salience, suggesting that at least part of the selection is directly risk-based. The second chapter studies the distributional properties of federal disaster aid and how barriers to …
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Female migration and housing in South Africa: evidence from the 2007 community survey
… migration phenomenon is observed to influence housing accessibility among female migrants in the areas of destinations specifically in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of South Africa. Yet, little is known about the forms of housing tenure female migrants use to acquire a place to live …
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Low-cost housing for developing countries: an analysis of the design process
… to clarify architectural approaches to meeting housing shortages in developing nations. This thesis is directed towards providing a greater understanding of the Third World building environment by examining unforeseen constraints, design parameters and the architect's new role vis-a-vis housing …
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Socioeconomic Status and Health Behavior in Nepal
… Heart Study in Dhulikhel, Nepal. Household characteristics, individual sociodemographic characteristics and individual health behaviors were assessed using standard questionnaires completed during in-home interviews. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) wealth index model was used to …
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Future Implications of Past Domestic Water Usage Trends
… since the heterogeneity in the household and housing characteristics may lead to considerable variations in water consumption. Many empirical studies have tried to evaluate the variation in water consumption across different housing types (e.g. separate house, apartment), consumer groups (e.g. …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… effort to understand the different dimensions of housing and its effects on human life. The concern of housing as an important keystone of social life dates back to the very initial stages of the Neolithic revolution where nomads turned into sedentary tribes because they understood the importance …