This paper describes a scoping review of 42 studies of neighborhood effects on
developmental health for children ages 0–6, published between 2009 and 2014. It focuses …

Few sociologists treat housing as a key independent variable, despite the emergence of
disparate bodies of research analyzing how housing affects outcomes that traditionally …

The recent housing crisis and ensuing economic recession have been unprecedented in
modern times. The loss of wealth due to the decline in value of real estate has been …

For poor families, the possession of assets—savings accounts, homes, and the like—has the
potential not only to relieve some of the stress of living in poverty but also to make a better …

The statistics, finance, and real estate literature regularly rely on propensity score matching
techniques to balance samples of data where randomized treatment assignment is not …

Using multi-level modeling in 26 communities, this study examines contributors to three
domains of community satisfaction—overall satisfaction, social life satisfaction, and …

Objectives In recent years, the government of the Philippines embarked upon an ambitious
Universal Health Care program, underpinned by the rapid scale-up of subsidized insurance …

In this article, we investigate the extent to which housing conditions are associated with
school results for children living in Norway. We link individual exam results of students from …

Research often finds significant associations between housing characteristics and child
outcomes. These are hypothesized to reflect direct and indirect effects, however it is unclear …

Owning one's own home is an important objective for many people and homeownership
potentially has important economic and social implications for both the homeowner and their …