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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Household Decisions"”.
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Representing accessibility in long-term household decisions evidence from vehicle ownership and residential location-related choice models
… in long-term transportation and location-related decisions. Specifically, we estimate household vehicle ownership models and real estate market price models with different measures of accessibility. Better performing accessibility measures are better representations of accessibility - at least for …
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Effects of Farm and Household Decisions on Labor Allocation and Profitability of Beginning Vegetable Farms in Virginia: a Linear Programming Model
… are relying on off-farm income to support their households. Decision-making and farm business planning are difficult skills to develop and improve, and the ability to develop a plan to balance on- and off-farm labor could allow farmers to make more profitable decisions. In this study, a General …
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Essays on the Economics of Child Labor and Fertility
… only education but also fertility. The parents' decisions are motivated by both financial and altruistic reasons. We focus on human capital formation and population growth as the determinants of economic development, and find that multiple steady-states can exist. In the first two chapters, the …
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Essays on Labor Allocation by Small Scale Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon
Human health is frequently omitted from household-level studies on agricultural productivity, land-use choices, and forest degradation and deforestation. Intuition, however, suggests that it could be an extremely important factor. This dissertation is built on three essays that use household survey …
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An Economic Impact Assessment of Cooperation-88 Potato Variety in China
… late spring 2015. To examine factors affecting household decisions to adopt and the intensity of their adoption, village adoption, household adoption, and household intensity of adoption were assessed. A village's proximity to a metropolitan county was the most important factor explaining …
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The impact of costs and perceived quality on utilisation of primary health care in Tanzania : rural-urban comparison
… health services and how these perceptions affect household decisions in utilising health services. It further examines the extent to which costs of health care are important determinant in health services utilisation and how rural and urban users are affected by this factor when it comes to …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
… specifically, the ways in which individual and household decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting future generations of workers. It compares the reasons for, and impacts of, these …
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The Impacts of Microfinance Institutions on Women Empowerment in Tanzania. A Case Study of Temeke District
… liberation; and what the improvements in intra-household relations. The researcher attempted to identify a few key indicators of women empowerment such as control of household decisions, household’s relations, participation and loans and their uses. Quantifiable profits in terms of livelihoods …
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Essays on Family Policy, Social Transfers, and Entrepreneurship
… of three essays on how public policy shapes household decisions, redis-tribution, and aggregate economic outcomes. The chapters study family policy, universal income transfers, and universal wealth transfers, with an emphasis on how policy design affects behavior through caregiving …
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Incidence and Costs of Pinhole Leak Corrosion and Corporate Cost of Capital Borrowing
… costs of pinhole leak corrosion as well as the household decisions for corrosion prevention and plumbing material selection. Three mail surveys of households were used to elicit the experiences with leaks as well as the optimal corrosion prevention and material choices. Probability modeling …
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Retirement income, bequests, and insurance : implications of mortality risk in a stochastic life cycle model
… and life insurance in the portfolios of elderly households. It has long been known in the economics literature that annuities should be of substantial value in the portfolios of retired individuals. However, outside of private pension plans. the purchase of private annuity contracts is relatively …
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Three Essays on Family Economics and Early Childhood Development
… three essays studying the effects of collective household decisions on early childhood development from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. The first chapter outlines the dissertation, by presenting the motivations, methods, conclusions, and policy implications for the entire …
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Essays on human capital investments in developing countries
… ability in explaining how resource-constrained households make nutritional investment decisions in their children. Parents have private information about their children’s abilities and health that is typically not available to researchers. I use a unique panel household dataset from Ecuador’s …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… transfer mechanisms affect homeowner relocation decisions remains unknown. Combining real estate transaction data and historical FEMA flood maps, I exploit geographic and temporal variation in flood zone designations, and insurance coverage limits of $250,000, to estimate how updated risk …
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Essays in real estate finance
… observe that between 1985 and 2007, the share of household mortgage debt as a proportion of the total value of housing in the US increased substantially from 30% to an all-time high of 50%. With the decline in house prices, these high levels of leverage increased the propensity at which households …
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Social networks, bargaining power within couples, and maternal health care in Tanzania
… that failure to control for individual and household observable characteristics overstates the impact of networks. Results from the two approaches used in this study confirm that irrespective of the definition of social network, having a high quality contacts increase the probability of …