The changing prevalence of housing overcrowding in post-reform China: The case of Shanghai, 2000-2010

Habitat International

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 214-223

  Zhang, Yina ^a   Chen, Jie ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Housing overcrowding; Housing poverty; Regression based decomposition; Subgroup decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892861100     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.12.007     Document Type: Article

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