We test for differences in parental investment in sons and daughters by estimating the effect of child gender on household expenditures. We focus on differences in expenditures on family public goods such as housing and durable goods. Using Consumer Expenditure Survey data from 1995 to 1998, we find that married-couple families with one son spend significantly more on several categories of hous...

Having historically been avoided by institutional financial investors, U.S. single-family housing—that is, free-standing residential property—received large investment inflows after the global crisis of 2007-2009 to rapidly become a substantial asset class. Why? And why then? The materialization an unprecedented opportunity—large stocks cheap, favorably located urban housing—was certainly pivot...

With the potential benefit of positive movement in the housing market and now having two properties this may place you in a good position to increase your retirement nest egg if you choose to sell your family home when you downsize. Depending on your situation you may even be able to keep the family home as an investment. One of the biggest decisions for many retirees is whether to stay in the ...

T he work of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) joins a growing body of literature confirming the critical importance of neighborhood conditions to health in America. Saying simply that the " incidence rates are not spread evenly across a region " understates the reality. The fact is that, in virtually all regions of the country, health problems are highly concentr...

BACKGROUND We examined whether neighborhood-, friend-, and family- norms and social support for consumption and purchase of fruits and vegetables (F&V) were associated with F&V intake among low-income residents in subsidized housing communities. We examined baseline data from a study ancillary to the Live Well/Viva Bien intervention. Participants included 290 residents in four low-income subsid...

BACKGROUND A critical shortage of affordable housing for low-income families continues in the United States. Children in households that are food insecure are at high risk for adverse nutritional and health outcomes and thus may be more vulnerable to the economic pressures exerted by high housing costs. Only about one fourth of eligible families receive a federally financed housing subsidy. Few...