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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Household assets"”.
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Social Capital and Economic Empowerment: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Changes in the Value of Accumulated Assets and Measures of Social Capital among Rural South African Women
… study explored the relationship between household asset accumulation over time and measures of social capital among impoverished rural South African women. The study re-analyzed an existing data set from a 2001–2005 study done in eight villages in South Africa. The original study …
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Socio- Economic differentials in fertility in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005
… and economic status, measured by ownership of household assets, and fertility based on the total fertility (TFR), CPFRs and projected PPRs estimates. Further analysis of the net effects of economic status and education using multivariate logistic regressions suggests the odds of having a child …
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The Relationship between Household Economic Resources and Youth Academic Performance in Ghana: A Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling
… who study the developmental effects of owning assets: e.g., savings, home, land, livestock, etc.) in particular have begun paying attention to ways in which personal: e.g., savings) and household: e.g., assets) economic resources can improve young people's educational outcomes. This emerging …
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Životní cyklus a majetková chudoba
… meet basic needs. The economic conditions of a household depend except from income also on assets of a household, and so on its real and financial asset holdings. The core of this thesis is to explore how asset holdings influence poverty over the life cycle. In last years, plenty of papers …
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A place to live: incremental building and its logics in informal settlements of Cape Town and Delhi
… space, sourcing building materials, building household assets, and linking to infrastructure. I argue not only incremental building is a story of agency and how ordinary people build their houses, neighbourhood and city, it is equally a story of a critical set of relationalities that play out …
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Assessing the Contribution of Village Community Bank on Household Welfare:A Case Study of Kishapu District, Shinyanga
… therefore assesses the contribution of VICOBA on household welfare in Kishapu District. The study specifically aimed to, identifying the impact of VICOBA on household welfare, to examine the contribution of VICOBA in alleviation of income poverty and to determine the community‟s attitude towards …
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… limits in means-tested welfare programs shape household saving behavior. I exploit cross-state variation in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) asset limits by linking these limits to individual-level data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and estimating …
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Essays in development economics
… characteristics and an index measuring household assets. The third essay, co-authored with Professor Esther Duflo, takes advantage of a school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. …
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The nature of choice: unraveling individual decision-making for climate-adaptation, science-participation, and environmental stewardship in Mexico
… livelihood outcomes as a product of the household assets they control while influenced by their external institutional and environmental vulnerability context. In Chapter 2, I modify the sustainable livelihoods framework by integrating climate perceptions into the livelihood assets that …
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Obstructed labour and Birth preparedness: Community studies from Uganda
… also showed statistical significance. Education, household assets and birth preparedness showed clear synergistic effect on the said relationships. Individual and health system factors are strongly associated with obstructed labour and its adverse outcomes in south-western Uganda. There is a need …
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Livelihood and land-use choices of Papua New Guinean landowners, and implications for decisions relevant to commercial tree growing
… attitudes and behaviour relevant to the use of household assets, engagement in subsistence and cash-income generating activities, patterns of exchanges and consumption, and allocation of labour, land and financial resources, to understand their choices in land- and resource-use decisions. The …
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Livelihood and land-use choices of Papua New Guinean landowners, and implications for decisions relevant to commercial tree growing
… attitudes and behaviour relevant to the use of household assets, engagement in subsistence and cash-income generating activities, patterns of exchanges and consumption, and allocation of labour, land and financial resources, to understand their choices in land- and resource-use decisions. The …
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Impacts of Parental Resources on Child Educational Outcomes: Assets and Mediating Pathways
… is still no consensus on how different types of assets contribute to children's educational outcomes. Also, asset effects on high school dropout are not examined to date, and mediating pathways of social-psychological characteristics are more investigated with educational achievement: e.g. …
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Analysing the relationship between seed security and food security: the case of Chimanimani district, Zimbabwe
… access, and utilisation, and those of household-level food security, which include dietary diversity and food consumption. The case study was conducted across two sites in Chimanimani district of Zimbabwe. Methods included both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. …
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The role of household wealth in funding self-employment in European countries
This thesis explores the role of household wealth in funding self-employment across euro-zone countries. The thesis considers key types of household wealth (i.e., assets, liabilities, income, and inheritances) and their components. It uses a highly detailed cross-country micro dataset constructed …
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Four empirical essays on the role of institutional quality, political instability and entrepreneurship for economic growth and jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa
… of human, physical, and financial capital by households and firms. In the literature, these factors are identified as the key determinants of economic growth and job creation, yet this thesis contributes to a knowledge gap, especially at the microeconomic level, on how households and firms …