Examines the potential for better feedback on electricity usage to reduce household energy consumption.
Effective counterinsurgency is dependent on understanding the local population. A survey of those living in Iraq's Anbar Province (once one of the country's most violent areas), reveals both the many improvements that have occurred, as well as the extent to which these Iraqis have suffered from the effects of war.
This paper identifies which interventions succeed most in preserving smallholders' household wealth. The livestock intervention is the most cost-effective one, and the employment guarantee scheme provides substantial asset protection.
Analysis of Current Population Survey data and the 1992 DoD Survey of Officers, Enlisted Personnel, and their Spouses demonstrate that the spouses of soldiers and airmen incur the heaviest burden of earnings penalty due to service specific factors.
Closing the gap in economic disparity between on- and off-base housing, and enhancing programs that aid service members in procuring off-base accommodations, would provide the greatest benefit to services and members.
This paper, reprinted from Demography, v. 24, no. 1, February 1987, analyzes movements among six household types: alone, couple, nuclear, single parent, other family, and other nonfamily.
The sharp decline with age in the percent of young adults who live with their parents is usually attributed to other concurrent life-cycle changes in the "transition to adulthood." In this reprint of an article which originally appeared in Demography...
Explores economic contributions that children make to parents while living in parent households.
The authors analyze survey data on informal transfers of money, goods, and help among Malaysian households in 1976-1977.
Preliminary analysis of data collected by the 1973 screening survey conducted in Brown County, Wisconsin, on 7,447 households indicates that the population eligible for the experimental housing allowance program is significantly larger than the initi...
Reviews the relationships between HUD's new national program of housing assistance to low-income renter households (Sec. 8 of the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, as amended) and the experimental housing allowance programs now under way in Brown County, Wis...
Describes the numbers and characteristics of households that were eligible for HUD's experimental housing allowance program and compares them with those that enrolled during the first two years in each site. In addition, the Note investigates turnov...
Investigates borrowing behavior of agricultural households in less-developed countries. The theoretical analysis employs a life-cycle utility-maximizing approach emphasizing (1) regular participation of farm households in labor markets; (2) differen...
Author's testimony in a U.S. Senate committee hearing on alternatives for meeting public service needs in housing. Since the 1930s, housing conditions have greatly improved in the United States. Few low-income families are overcrowded or live in se...
Income inequality and ethnic differences in income are important political issues in Malaysia. This paper uses 1976-1977 data on over 1,000 households in Peninsular Malaysia to show that estimates of the extent of income inequality and of the relati...
Most residential mobility models concentrate on the decision to move while ignoring the housing search process and its effects on the housing adjustments households make when they move. This paper introduces a three-stage search model designed to exp...
Assesses the completeness and reliability of baseline (1974) data describing households and their housing for a stratified probability sample of residential properties in Brown County, Wisconsin (Site I of the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment). I...
During the first year of the housing allowance program in Brown County, Wisconsin, only eight program participants bought homes, and lenders had few inquiries from eligible or participating households about home purchase or improvement. The attitudes...
Results from two experimental sites during three years of program operations indicate that about 20 percent of all households are eligible for housing allowances and about 10 percent choose to enroll in the program. Most enrollees are elderly homeown...
Effects of energy price increases on households at different income levels are estimated. Direct expenditures are taken from household budget studies; indirect consumption is estimated by applying input-output coefficients to nonenergy expenditures....
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