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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Housing characteristics of older adults with cognitive impairment. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Okoye SM, Patil AP, Portacolone E, Gordon K, Gitlin LN.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal contracts for housing services purchases [PDF]

In this article, we study tradeoffs associated with homeownership and renting. We consider a model in which housing capital generates housing services, but also requires regular maintenance.
Grochuluski, Borys
core  

Do Consumers Respond to Marginal Prices at Kink Points? Evidence From 40+ Million Electricity Bills in Ethiopia

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leveraging over 40 million residential electricity billing records from more than one million meters in Ethiopia, we test whether consumers respond to marginal prices at kink points under an increasing block tariff (IBT). We exploit a unique institutional setting in which two distinct billing systems (manual postpaid and automated prepaid ...
Tensay Hadush Meles, Gunnar Köhlin
wiley   +1 more source

Residential Mobility and Housing Tenure Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: a Cross-National Analysis of Five European Countries. [PDF]

Eur J Popul
Harrison J, Delaporte I, Kulu H, Mikolai J, Liu C, Al Ahad MA, Lacroix J, Andersson G, Pailhé A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Housing type and risk of depression - the mediating effects of perceived indoor annoyances and loneliness: a Danish cohort study, 2000-2018. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Kirkegaard AM, Kloster S, Davidsen M, Christensen AI, Martiny K, Volf C, Loft S, Nielsen NS, Gunnarsen L, Ersbøll AK.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fatigue and the psychological characteristics of medical students. [PDF]

Int J Occup Med Environ Health, 2023
Walkiewicz M, Zdun-Ryżewska A, Budziński W, Tartas M, Błażek M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Were Governance Pathways Formed for Public Service Co‐Production? A Contingency Perspective

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the under‐theorized formation of specific co‐production arrangements by exploring governance pathway formation. Using 76 community regeneration projects in Shanghai, we identify a parsimonious two‐level typology: State‐led co‐production (comprising sub‐type A: state as operator and sub‐type B: non‐state as operator) and ...
Huanming Wang, Bing Ran
wiley   +1 more source