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In this paper TILAK ABEYSINGHE (Economics) and Jiaying Gu deviate from conventional short-run indicators to develop an index that captures both short-run and long-run housing affordability. Using data from the Singapore Department of Statistics the authors developed a methodology to compute the lifetime income of different birth cohorts. The lifetime income of each household was …
Associate Professor Huang Jianli, (Department of History) is the 2011 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Southeast Asia. The Fellowship provides an expert on the region the opportunity to travel, write and conduct their research in residence both at NUS and at Stanford University. What makes this year’s fellow so interesting is that Prof …
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Dr. Choo Hyekyung, (Social Work) recently received the Annals, Academy of Medicine Best Publication Silver Award 2010, based on her co-authored article ‘Pathological Video-Gaming among Singapore Youth’. This important new work understandably drew the attention of the media and is a topic which continues to generate much discussion, not only in academic circles. Below Dr Choo …
Professor George Bishop, Head of FASS’ Department of Psychology recently received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychology in Singapore, in recognition of his contributions to the development of Psychology in Singapore as well as the Singapore Psychological Society. Prof Bishop has spent nearly 20 years with NUS and has been Head of Department since 2005. His …
Daniel Goh (Sociology) looks at how Chingay and other state-sponsored parades have evolved in keeping with state’s needs of the period. Goh’s paper has ramifications for understanding past and future state-sponsored cultural events and soft power in Singapore and beyond. There is an inevitable political dimension to state carnivals. For Singapore they have been deployed …
CNM’s Hichang Cho explores how social influences affect our willingness to adopt new technology. This study has important implications for technology companies and how they enter new markets. New technologies are constantly being introduced to consumers, one recent introduction being 3rd Generation (3G) mobile services to the Singapore market. While the introduction of such new …
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