The impact of housing macroprudential policy on firm innovation: empirical evidence from China by Mengtao Chen, Haojie Zhu, Yongming Sun, Ruoxi Jin

“…Further examination of city-level heterogeneity suggests that firms located in areas with lower housing dependency and limited financial development benefit more from HMP’s positive-effect on firm innovation. …”
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Impact of different housing densities combined with Environmental enrichment on the production of Japanese quail by Marcílio José Vieira, Michele de Oliveira Mendonça, Jean Kaique Valentim, Damares de Castro Fidélis, Steferson dos Reis Oliveira, Samuel Oliveira Borges

“…It can be concluded that a lower housing density, with seven quail per cage (157.8 cm2 bird-1), regardless of environmental enrichment, provides better zootechnical performance and egg quality. …”
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Household economic costs associated with mental, neurological and substance use disorders: a cross-sectional survey in six low- and middle-income countries by Crick Lund, Sumaiyah Docrat, Jibril Abdulmalik, Atalay Alem, Abebaw Fekadu, Oye Gureje, Dristy Gurung, Damen Hailemariam, Yohannes Hailemichael, Charlotte Hanlon, Mark J. D. Jordans, Dorothy Kizza, Sharmishtha Nanda, Saheed Olayiwola, Rahul Shidhaye, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Graham Thornicroft, Dan Chisholm

“…BackgroundLittle is known about the household economic costs associated with mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in low- and middle-income countries.AimsTo assess the association between MNS disorders and household education, consumption, production, assets and financial coping strategies in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.MethodWe conducted an exploratory cross-sectional household survey in one district in each country, comparing the economic circumstances of households with an MNS disorder (alcohol-use disorder, depression, epilepsy or psychosis) (n = 2339) and control households (n = 1982).ResultsDespite some heterogeneity between MNS disorder groups and countries, households with a member with an MNS disorder had generally lower levels of adult education; lower housing standards, total household income, effective income and non-health consumption; less asset-based wealth; higher healthcare expenditure; and greater use of deleterious financial coping strategies.ConclusionsHouseholds living with a member who has an MNS disorder constitute an economically vulnerable group who are susceptible to chronic poverty and intergenerational poverty transmission.Declaration of interestD.C. is a staff member of the World Health Organization. …”
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Measuring the Spatial-Temporal Heterogeneity of Helplessness Sentiment and Its Built Environment Determinants during the COVID-19 Quarantines: A Case Study in Shanghai by Yuhao He, Qianlong Zhao, Shanqi Sun, Wenjing Li, Waishan Qiu

“…Second, residents in neighborhoods characterized by higher rents and property management fees, higher population density, lower housing prices, lower plot ratios, or surrounded by less tree view and higher perceived visual complexity, are found to exhibit higher degree of “helplessness”. …”
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Is Housing Growth Ever Inclusive Growth? Evidence from Three Decades of Housing Development in England and Wales, 1981–2011 by Rebecca Tunstall

“…It applies these terms to data for 1981–2011 on rooms per person for England and Wales, the bulk of the UK, a nation with high income inequality but lower housing inequality. At national level, median housing space increased but the worst-off gained nothing, and inequality rose, so growth was neither inclusive nor just. …”
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Beyond luck: The key to profitable residential real estate investments for individual investors in Türkiye by Celal Erdogdu

“…We analysed the opportunity for access to housing, the opportunity of lower loan interest rates and the opportunity of lower housing prices in Türkiye in the 120 months between 2013 and 2022 using the income-housing price scale. …”
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Productive parameters in three production models: floor, cage and grazing in layer poultry in Ocaña Norte de Santander by Myriam Quintero MEZA, Katty Andrea Torrado LOBO, Yesenia Picon SANCHEZ, Naudin Alejandro Lugo HURTADO

“…In conclusion, birds with a lower housing density allow better behavior, which is an indicator of comfort, generating higher productivity.…”
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Working From Home and Covid-19: Where Could Residents Move to? by Johannes Moser, Fabian Wenner, Alain Thierstein

“…However, classical geographical economic theory suggests that a reduced need for commuting might lead to a reorientation of residential preferences amongst employees towards even fewer urban areas, as households trade off the disamenity of commuting against lower housing costs and more living space. This article investigates how such consequences could unfold in space. …”
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Foreign Policy Orientation and Electoral Behavior: Analyzing Opinion Polls in Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan by I. Yu. Okunev, M. N. Shestakova

“…The study captures a snapshot of public sentiment in these countries on the eve of this wave of transformation it is based on a series of largescale opinion polls in Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan, conducted immediately after the last elections to the lower houses of the parliaments of these countries in the pre-crisis era. …”
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Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being by Marta Baltruszewicz, Julia K Steinberger, Diana Ivanova, Lina I Brand-Correa, Jouni Paavola, Anne Owen

“…In all three countries, households with high well-being show much lower housing energy use, due to a transition from inefficient biomass-based traditional fuels to efficient modern fuels, such as gas and electricity. …”
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Investigation to identify individual socioeconomic and health determinants of suicidal ideation using responses to a cross-sectional, community-based public health survey by Terence Comerford, Helen Mulholland, Richard Whittington, Rhiannon Corcoran, Jason C McIntyre, Alina Haines-Delmont

“…Model 1 (excluding mental health variables) identified younger age, black and minority ethnic (BME) background, lower housing quality and current smoker status as key predictors of SI. …”
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Housing Characteristics of Areas With More Falls by Older Adults Living in Single-Family Detached Dwellings: A Cohort Study Using Geospatial Analysis by Paul Y. Takahashi, MD, MPH, Euijung Ryu, PhD, Katherine S. King, MS, Rachel E. Dixon, BA, Julie C. Porcher, MS, Philip H. Wheeler, Chung Il Wi, MD, Young J. Juhn, MD, MPH

“…Conclusion: Falls were more common in locations in our community that had older, smaller homes and lower housing-based socioeconomic status. These findings can be used by clinicians to identify residents who are at higher risk for falls.…”
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Leaving the Big City: New Patterns of Migration in Canada by Kevin McQuillan

“…However, the pandemic, combined with the technology that allows people to work from anywhere, means that more people are moving to smaller communities where they can enjoy lower housing costs and other benefits that less dense places offer. …”
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Reduction in Cold Stress in an Innovative Metabolic Cage Housing System Increases Animal Welfare in Laboratory Mice by Laura Wittek, Chadi Touma, Tina Nitezki, Thomas Laeger, Stephanie Krämer, Jens Raila

“…Our results show the stress potential induced by metabolic cage restraint that is markedly influenced by the lower housing temperature. The IMC represents a first attempt to target cold stress reduction during metabolic cage application thereby producing more animal welfare friendlydata.…”
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