Continuous environmental stimulation induced by exposure to enriched environment (EE) has yielded cognitive benefits in different models of brain injury. Perinatal asphyxia results from a lack of oxygen supply to the fetus and is associated with long-lasting neurological deficits. However, the effects of EE in middle-aged rats suffering perinatal asphyxia are unknown. Therefore, the aim of the ...

Housing mobility programs enable families living in high-poverty neighborhoods to relocate to lowerpoverty neighborhoods using tenant-based subsidies. Recent research indicates that these programs improve participant outcomes on a number of economic and social outcomes. Can such programs be run at a scale sufficient to help a large proportion of eligible families? Would doing so change the char...

Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated urban environments in the world. Under its laissez faire free economy, the government dominates the supply of land. The government has applied different measures to ensure affordability in public housing, in rent setting as well as various subsidised-ownership programmes. Starting from minimal intervention towards privatisation, Hong Kong has adopt...

the present paper that was based on the documentation method and secondary analysis of data from censuses population and housing statistics center of iran, intended to thoroughly analyze the effects of these factors in rural migration on rural aging population in addition, the increase in aging of iranian employees in agriculture sector and its consequences were examined. results have shown tha...

We develop a life-cycle model to study the effects of house price changes on household consumption and welfare. The model explicitly incorporates the dual feature of housing as both a consumption good and an investment asset and allows for costly adjustments in housing and mortgage positions. Our analysis indicates that although house price changes have small aggregate effects, their consumptio...

House is considered not only as one of the main needs of human beings but also as one of the best determining characteristics of living standard. Housing shortages is one of the most acute problems next to the rapid growth of the large cities and their suburbs in developing countries. These cities take all the opportunities, services and the funds Which a country has to offer,, Despite this ...

Housing mobility programs enable families living in high-poverty neighborhoods to relocate to lowerpoverty neighborhoods using tenant-based subsidies. Recent research indicates that these programs improve participant outcomes on a number of economic and social outcomes. Can such programs be run at a scale sufficient to help a large proportion of eligible families? Would doing so change the char...

Two decades of China's urban housing reform has produced significant quantitative and qualitative improvements. Despite various policies aimed to promote owner-occupied residential housing, the extent of commodification has been limited, and, in particular, most ownership transactions are independent of market considerations. This paper analyzes the reasons why significant commercial owner-occu...