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Transaction Costs and Housing Affordability in Asia [PDF]

Asia is home to some of the fastest growing cities in the world. As urbanization increases, demand for housing also increases. Well functioning housing markets can minimize problems associated with rapid urbanization such as unaffordable housing and ...
Prince Christian R. Cruz
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Housing Affordability: Looking Beyond the Median [PDF]

We draw a distinction between the concepts of purchase affordability (whether a household is able to borrow enough funds to purchase a house) and repayment affordability (the burden imposed on a household of repaying the mortgage). We operationalize this
Quan Gan, Robert J. Hill
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Development of an affordability assessment framework for defence contracts at the bidding stage [PDF]

, 2011
Defence contracting has changed from the traditional provision of spares and repairs to contracting long-term for availability and capability. In these long-term contracts, the customer decides to outsource services (that would have been provided in ...
Bankole, O. O.
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo, Aaron J. Staples, Jayson L. Lusk, Glynn T. Tonsor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Video and Text‐Based Supplemental Health Information and Consumer Willingness to Pay for Nutrient‐Enhanced Eggs

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutritional information is very important in the food choices of consumers. However, when they are too scientific or technical, they have the potential to confuse consumers, resulting in information asymmetry and dissuading them from making beneficial choices.
Edeoba W. Edobor, Michael J. Best, Anita R. Best, Ondulla T. Toomer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI Powered Biobanks From Static Archives to Dynamic Discovery Engines

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Large language models (LLMs) provide a potential framework for transforming biobanks from static data repositories into intelligent discovery engines. By enabling unified representation and analysis of multimodal biomedical data, LLM‐based systems facilitate dynamic risk prediction, biomarker identification, and mechanistic interpretation, thereby ...
Wenzhen Yin, Yutian Feng, Wenrui Ma, Yuxin Su, Li Min, Juan Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lifetime Income and Housing Affordability in Singapore [PDF]

The existing measures of housing affordability are essentially short-run indicators that compare current income with property prices. Taking into consideration that a housing purchase is a long-horizon decision and the property price reflects the ...
Tilak Abeysinghe, Jiaying Gu
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Bronchoscopy Robot with Enhanced Flexibility and Stability via Multi‐Segment Variable Stiffness Catheter

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work presents a magnetic bronchoscopy robot with a novel multi‐segment variable stiffness catheter. This catheter can not only move flexibly in the narrow bronchi but also harden according to the need to provide support. Combined with remote wireless magnetic field drive, it provides a more precise and effective solution for biopsy of deep lung ...
Shucong Yin, Bin Huang, Shiyuan Dong, Junhao Wang, Liangshen Zhao, Yang Yang, Bingkun Bao, Hongen Liao, Fang Chen, Tianqi Huang, Boyu Zhang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Affordability in the United States: Price-to-Income Ratio by Pareto Distribution

Geographies
This study integrates the price-to-income ratio (PIR) with Pareto distribution characteristics to provide a novel approach for evaluating home affordability across U.S. counties. The methodology offers a new lens for the analysis of home affordability by
Francisco Vergara-Perucich
doaj   +1 more source