Consumer satisfaction with utility services has received increased attention from firms, consumer associations, regulators and governments since the 1990s. Evidence is mounting that consumers in specific socio-economic groups express lower satisfaction levels than their peers, at least, in some...

Hurricane Katrina induced hundreds of thousands of New Orleans citizens to evacuate and relocate to different neighborhoods. Some of these evacuees moved to neighborhoods with poverty rates lower than the one they left in New Orleans. With survey data on a small sample of black Katrina evacuees...

The main aim of the paper is to present the methodological basis of housing transactions which uses duration analysis and Cox' proportional hazards model. The study will take into consideration single episodes with one starting point (the purchase of a flat on the resale market) and one final...

As result of public housing reform and welfare reform, the operating environment of public housing authorities has changed significantly. Given these policy initiatives, housing mobility programs represent viable strategies for providing public housing residents with access to economically...

Literature on neighborhood effects on health largely employs non-experimental study designs and does not typically test specific neighborhood mediators that influence health. We address these gaps using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing voucher experiment. Research has documented both...

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the link between socio-economic characteristics of house buyers and their housing location choices. The major objective of the study is an examination of the role of household socio-economic characteristics. The research addresses the importance of previous...