Russell N James
Biographic Data
| ID | 302382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell N James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell N |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1887-8183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Phrasing the Charitable Bequest Inquiry
This paper reports interest levels associated with twenty-three different phrasings of a request to leave a gift to charity in a will among 9964 survey respondents. Previous research suggests that a review of one’s life story may be an important component of bequest decision-making. Other findings suggest that mortality reminders may increase support for social norms and the pursuit of symbolic immortality. The attempts to reference symbolic immo…
The Encyclopedia of Housing
Why are the oldest old less generous? Explanations for the unexpected age-related drop in charitable giving
Previous research has demonstrated that the generally positive relationship between age and the presence of charitable giving becomes negative at the oldest ages. We investigate potential causes of this drop in charitable giving among the oldest old including changes in health, cognition, egocentric networks, religious attendance, and substitution of charitable bequest planning. A longitudinal analysis of data from the United States Health and Re…
Tithing and religious charitable giving in America
The concept of religious tithing – giving 10% or more of one's income to religious organizations – permeates ancient and contemporary religious literature. Yet, the degree to which households apply this construct in their charitable giving practices remains unclear. This study examines the practice of tithing using data from a national expenditures survey including 56 663 households. Despite the pervasiveness of the tithing concept, religious don…
Homeownership Plans Among Hispanic Renters
From 2000–2005, growth in Hispanic homeownership in the United States outpaced other racial and ethnic groups. This corresponds with data from the Survey of Consumer Finances indicating that Hispanic renters experienced a dramatic upsurge in saving for homeownership—relative to renters of other racial and ethnic backgrounds—during the 1998,2001, and 2004 surveys. This relatively higher propensity to save for homeownership largely disappeared in t…
Residential Satisfaction of Military Households in Privatized Apartment Communities
The academic community has not extensively researched residential satisfaction of military households possibly because of the uniformity of housing options offered within a military base environment. The recent passage of the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) is the latest in a series of Congressional initiatives to improve housing options for the U.S. armed forces. Improvements in job performance and enlistment retention are liste…
The Origin of Spaces
This paper seeks to establish a natural approach towards understanding housing by suggesting the existence of a primal hierarchy of natural housing functions based upon an analysis of nesting behaviour in hominid apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang‐utans). A review of international research on housing satisfaction and an analysis of data from the American Housing Survey confirm the modern relevance of this hierarchy of natural housing …
Examining the Connection Between Housing Counseling Practices and Long-Term Housing and Neighborhood Satisfaction
Housing counseling can increase homeownership opportunities for economically disadvantaged households. Prior research has generally viewed counseling as a means to reduce risk for mortgage lenders and insurers. This approach, which comes from the industry perspective, ignores important qualitative outcomes essential to a “successful” housing experience. This study focused on the end-user perspective by examining pre-purchase housing counseling ag…
The Impact of a Migration Shock on Tenant Satisfaction
The damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive displacement of residents, in particular from New Orleans, Louisiana. Initially, many of these evacuees moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the closest major town that escaped significant hurricane damage. Using comments posted on the United States’ largest consumer comment website for apartment residents, this study tracks the self-reported residential satisfaction of tenants in Baton …
Home Sweet Apartment
Achieving renter satisfaction is critical for residential property managers who desire to reduce the costs of high turnover. While previous research on renter satisfaction has focused on the use of multiple-choice surveys, this study analyzed the text of 464,280 open-ended comments posted from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2007, on ApartmentRatings.com©, the nation’s largest apartment ratings Web site. Cross-tabulation and ordered logistic analy…
Investing in Housing Characteristics that Count
This article examined how bathrooms (and half-bathrooms) were associated with the self reported satisfaction of residents in comparison to bedrooms, other rooms, overall size, and the presence of such amenities as a dishwasher, disposal, fireplace, balcony/patio, and garage. Cross-tabulations, ordinary least squares, and cumulative logit analyses of data from the 2005 American Housing Survey demonstrated a particularly strong positive relationshi…
An Economic Model of Asymmetric Information, Dissatisfaction, and Resident Turnover in Rented Multifamily Housing
This article presented an original economic model of the apartment rental market where service expenditures are invisible to prospective residents (but highly important to current residents), while recruiting expenditures are highly visible to prospective residents (but often inconsequential to current residents). In a competitive market, the model predicts that managers will necessarily favor observable recruiting expenditures, even though such …
Residential Satisfaction of Elderly Tenants in Apartment Housing
The "Sect Effect" in Charitable Giving
An examination of the charitable giving behavior of 16,442 households reveals intriguing patterns consistent with the club-theoretic approach to religious sect affiliation. The club-theoretic model suggests that individuals with lower socioeconomic standing will rationally be more likely to align themselves with exclusivistic sects. Because sect affiliation is also associated with more obligatory religious contributions, this approach generates n…
Multi-family Housing, Social Capital, and Charitable Behavior
Research and popular discussion in the last decade have led to a growing understanding of the importance of social capital for efficient societal functioning. This article considered the relationship of spatial connectedness in the built environment to social connectedness. Using charitable giving as a measure of pro-social behavior, an examination of 15,535 households participating in the Consumer Expenditure Survey revealed an inverse U-shaped …
Residential Satisfaction of Elderly Tenants in Apartment Housing
Home Sweet Apartment
Achieving renter satisfaction is critical for residential property managers who desire to reduce the costs of high turnover. While previous research on renter satisfaction has focused on the use of multiple-choice surveys, this study analyzed the text of 464,280 open-ended comments posted from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2007, on ApartmentRatings.com©, the nation’s largest apartment ratings Web site. Cross-tabulation and ordered logistic analy…
Why are the oldest old less generous? Explanations for the unexpected age-related drop in charitable giving
Previous research has demonstrated that the generally positive relationship between age and the presence of charitable giving becomes negative at the oldest ages. We investigate potential causes of this drop in charitable giving among the oldest old including changes in health, cognition, egocentric networks, religious attendance, and substitution of charitable bequest planning. A longitudinal analysis of data from the United States Health and Re…
Examining the Connection Between Housing Counseling Practices and Long-Term Housing and Neighborhood Satisfaction
Housing counseling can increase homeownership opportunities for economically disadvantaged households. Prior research has generally viewed counseling as a means to reduce risk for mortgage lenders and insurers. This approach, which comes from the industry perspective, ignores important qualitative outcomes essential to a “successful” housing experience. This study focused on the end-user perspective by examining pre-purchase housing counseling ag…
The "Sect Effect" in Charitable Giving
An examination of the charitable giving behavior of 16,442 households reveals intriguing patterns consistent with the club-theoretic approach to religious sect affiliation. The club-theoretic model suggests that individuals with lower socioeconomic standing will rationally be more likely to align themselves with exclusivistic sects. Because sect affiliation is also associated with more obligatory religious contributions, this approach generates n…
Investing in Housing Characteristics that Count
This article examined how bathrooms (and half-bathrooms) were associated with the self reported satisfaction of residents in comparison to bedrooms, other rooms, overall size, and the presence of such amenities as a dishwasher, disposal, fireplace, balcony/patio, and garage. Cross-tabulations, ordinary least squares, and cumulative logit analyses of data from the 2005 American Housing Survey demonstrated a particularly strong positive relationshi…
Multi-family Housing, Social Capital, and Charitable Behavior
Research and popular discussion in the last decade have led to a growing understanding of the importance of social capital for efficient societal functioning. This article considered the relationship of spatial connectedness in the built environment to social connectedness. Using charitable giving as a measure of pro-social behavior, an examination of 15,535 households participating in the Consumer Expenditure Survey revealed an inverse U-shaped …
Multi-family Housing, Social Capital, and Charitable Behavior
Research and popular discussion in the last decade have led to a growing understanding of the importance of social capital for efficient societal functioning. This article considered the relationship of spatial connectedness in the built environment to social connectedness. Using charitable giving as a measure of pro-social behavior, an examination of 15,535 households participating in the Consumer Expenditure Survey revealed an inverse U-shaped …
The "Sect Effect" in Charitable Giving
An examination of the charitable giving behavior of 16,442 households reveals intriguing patterns consistent with the club-theoretic approach to religious sect affiliation. The club-theoretic model suggests that individuals with lower socioeconomic standing will rationally be more likely to align themselves with exclusivistic sects. Because sect affiliation is also associated with more obligatory religious contributions, this approach generates n…
The Impact of a Migration Shock on Tenant Satisfaction
The damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina resulted in a massive displacement of residents, in particular from New Orleans, Louisiana. Initially, many of these evacuees moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the closest major town that escaped significant hurricane damage. Using comments posted on the United States’ largest consumer comment website for apartment residents, this study tracks the self-reported residential satisfaction of tenants in Baton …
Home Sweet Apartment
Achieving renter satisfaction is critical for residential property managers who desire to reduce the costs of high turnover. While previous research on renter satisfaction has focused on the use of multiple-choice surveys, this study analyzed the text of 464,280 open-ended comments posted from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2007, on ApartmentRatings.com©, the nation’s largest apartment ratings Web site. Cross-tabulation and ordered logistic analy…
Investing in Housing Characteristics that Count
This article examined how bathrooms (and half-bathrooms) were associated with the self reported satisfaction of residents in comparison to bedrooms, other rooms, overall size, and the presence of such amenities as a dishwasher, disposal, fireplace, balcony/patio, and garage. Cross-tabulations, ordinary least squares, and cumulative logit analyses of data from the 2005 American Housing Survey demonstrated a particularly strong positive relationshi…
An Economic Model of Asymmetric Information, Dissatisfaction, and Resident Turnover in Rented Multifamily Housing
This article presented an original economic model of the apartment rental market where service expenditures are invisible to prospective residents (but highly important to current residents), while recruiting expenditures are highly visible to prospective residents (but often inconsequential to current residents). In a competitive market, the model predicts that managers will necessarily favor observable recruiting expenditures, even though such …
Residential Satisfaction of Elderly Tenants in Apartment Housing
Residential Satisfaction of Military Households in Privatized Apartment Communities
The academic community has not extensively researched residential satisfaction of military households possibly because of the uniformity of housing options offered within a military base environment. The recent passage of the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) is the latest in a series of Congressional initiatives to improve housing options for the U.S. armed forces. Improvements in job performance and enlistment retention are liste…
The Origin of Spaces
This paper seeks to establish a natural approach towards understanding housing by suggesting the existence of a primal hierarchy of natural housing functions based upon an analysis of nesting behaviour in hominid apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orang‐utans). A review of international research on housing satisfaction and an analysis of data from the American Housing Survey confirm the modern relevance of this hierarchy of natural housing …
Examining the Connection Between Housing Counseling Practices and Long-Term Housing and Neighborhood Satisfaction
Housing counseling can increase homeownership opportunities for economically disadvantaged households. Prior research has generally viewed counseling as a means to reduce risk for mortgage lenders and insurers. This approach, which comes from the industry perspective, ignores important qualitative outcomes essential to a “successful” housing experience. This study focused on the end-user perspective by examining pre-purchase housing counseling ag…
Tithing and religious charitable giving in America
The concept of religious tithing – giving 10% or more of one's income to religious organizations – permeates ancient and contemporary religious literature. Yet, the degree to which households apply this construct in their charitable giving practices remains unclear. This study examines the practice of tithing using data from a national expenditures survey including 56 663 households. Despite the pervasiveness of the tithing concept, religious don…
Homeownership Plans Among Hispanic Renters
From 2000–2005, growth in Hispanic homeownership in the United States outpaced other racial and ethnic groups. This corresponds with data from the Survey of Consumer Finances indicating that Hispanic renters experienced a dramatic upsurge in saving for homeownership—relative to renters of other racial and ethnic backgrounds—during the 1998,2001, and 2004 surveys. This relatively higher propensity to save for homeownership largely disappeared in t…
The Encyclopedia of Housing
Why are the oldest old less generous? Explanations for the unexpected age-related drop in charitable giving
Previous research has demonstrated that the generally positive relationship between age and the presence of charitable giving becomes negative at the oldest ages. We investigate potential causes of this drop in charitable giving among the oldest old including changes in health, cognition, egocentric networks, religious attendance, and substitution of charitable bequest planning. A longitudinal analysis of data from the United States Health and Re…
Phrasing the Charitable Bequest Inquiry
This paper reports interest levels associated with twenty-three different phrasings of a request to leave a gift to charity in a will among 9964 survey respondents. Previous research suggests that a review of one’s life story may be an important component of bequest decision-making. Other findings suggest that mortality reminders may increase support for social norms and the pursuit of symbolic immortality. The attempts to reference symbolic immo…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Apartment (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)