The Relative Deprivation of U.S. Elderly Households as Judged by their Housing Problems

Golant, Stephen M.; Greca, Anthony J. La

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“…Stewart (2006) found a positive link between relative deprivation and SWB, showing that people who experience higher levels of relative deprivation have lower SWB. We are not aware of any studies investigating relation between relative housing conditions and SWB, but Golant and La Greca (1995) suggested there might be a link between relative housing conditions and health for older people. Our expectation is that the difference in SWB between living in a small and large dwelling is larger in eastern European countries, where housing quality is lower, and differences in housing quality are larger (hypothesis 3).…”

Section: Housing Qualitymentioning

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Housing and subjective well-being of older adults in Europe

Herbers

Mulder

2016

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Housing quality is known to be related to subjective well-being (SWB), but much less is known how this relationship varies with national contexts. This study addresses the association between housing tenure and housing quality on the one hand and the SWB of older Europeans on the other, given the differences in housing markets across Europe. Data from the Survey on Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) were used and linear regression models of SWB were estimated for 16 European countries. The findings indicate that being a renter is negatively related to SWB, while having a large house is positively associated with it. The negative effect of being a renter on SWB is small in several countries with accessible and well-regulated rental markets. Moreover, the difference in SWB between older people with a small and a large dwelling is somewhat smaller in countries with a high level of housing quality than in countries with lower housing quality. For each of our housing indicators, however, we also found countries for which the findings deviated from the general pattern. The findings imply that housing-market characteristics matter to how housing relates to SWB and, therefore, that housing-market interventions might affect this relationship.

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Section: Housing Qualitymentioning

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Housing and subjective well-being of older adults in Europe

Herbers

Mulder

2016

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Similarly, during periods of hot or cold weather, older people living in inadequately cooled or heated dwellings may be at a higher risk of mortality [9]. To cut back on general shelter costs, older people may reduce their expenditure on utilities [10].…”

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Correlates of housing affordability stress among older Australians

Temple

2008

Australas J Ageing

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“…In the end, analysts concerned with the housing situation of elderly people in the United States now use data other than the Census (e.g. Golant and La Greca, 1995;Markham and Gilderbloom, 1998).…”

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Indicating Socioeconomic Status among Elderly People in Developing Societies: An Example from Brazil

Vos

2005

Soc Indic Res

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This paper is concerned with how to indicate Socioeconomic status (SES) among elderly people with census or survey data from less developed societies. It reports findings from a study of independent living among elderly people 65 years and over in Brazil in 1980 and 1995 that uncommonly had comparable data on education, income and housing attributes. It found that the potential indicators of SES are not substitutable. Rather, although they tend to be positively related to each other, each can have a different relationship with independent living, one being positively related even as another has no relation and a third has a negative relation. I recommend that the indicators not be combined into one measure, and that if only one is used, that choice not be called 'Socioeconomic status' but rather precisely what it is (e.g. education). [One}… stance involves a measurement-by-fiat approach through which the investigator selects whatever remotely connected indicators he or she can locate and then merely announces that these will serve as measures [or proxies] of some highly abstract theoretical construct. The presumed rationale is that since the concept is difficult to measure, almost any indicators will do. (Blalock, 1982, p. 19). However, insofar as different perspectives lead to conflicting conclusions concerning the 'same' issue, the sensitivity of findings to (…) measurement (…) is clearly a matter of concern. (World Bank, n.fd.)

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The Relative Deprivation of U.S. Elderly Households as Judged by their Housing Problems

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Housing and subjective well-being of older adults in Europe

Housing and subjective well-being of older adults in Europe

Correlates of housing affordability stress among older Australians

Indicating Socioeconomic Status among Elderly People in Developing Societies: An Example from Brazil

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