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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Household data"”.
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… Vietnam, based on empirical analysis at the farm household level. The thesis begins by reviewing theories and literature on the agricultural transformation. This reviewassists in the development of the analytical framework and research issues for the thesis. The next chapter provides an overview …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… Vietnam, based on empirical analysis at the farm household level. The thesis begins by reviewing theories and literature on the agricultural transformation. This reviewassists in the development of the analytical framework and research issues for the thesis. The next chapter provides an overview …
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The Economic Impact of Peanut Research on the Poor: The Case of Resistance Strategies to Control Peanut Viruses in Uganda
… of technology on the cost of production at the household level are determined. This information is used to compute aggregate benefits in an economic surplus model. A probit model is used to identify the determinants of adoption using household data. Information regarding the determinants of …
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How does the process of educational attainment differ between Africans and Coloureds in the Western Cape?
… Western Cape, Coloureds have higher per capita household income, more educated parents, superior schooling inputs and improved performance on achievement tests in comparison to Africans. The finding that Coloureds have only a slightly higher matriculation rate and a statistically equivalent …
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Three Essays on Corruption and Collusion
… studies corruption and collusion with data derived from a laboratory experiment and household data. In Chapter 1 I study experimental procurement auctions with bribery and a public reserve to test for the tacitly collusive equilibrium described by Compte et al. (2005). Three sellers …
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Savings Groups and Banks: Complements or Substitutes? Financial Inclusion in Rural Tanzania
… (banks) within low-income communities. Based on household data collected in Tanzania in 2013, this paper attempts, using two different estimations, a Probit and then a 2SLS model, to evaluate the impact of participation in Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCO) on the probability of members …
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Food insecurity in Cape Town: how inadequate access affects human health and livelihoods
… in South Africa. Therefore, using a quantitative household data survey completed by the African Food Security Urban Network in 2008, this study examines the relationship of spatial food access and malnutrition and under-nutrition in three areas of Cape Town's peri-urban areas: Ocean View, …
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Key worker housing : a demand analysis of middle-income workforce housing in eastern Massachusetts
… workers" as a proxy for middle-income workforce households, and to better understand where demand may be greatest for middle-income housing. Key workers provide essential education, heath, and community safety services fundamental to the long-term vitality of our cities and towns. Key workers …
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The Pursuit of Balanced Income: An Economic Perspective on Wealth
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to determine if households with moderate incomes have the opportunity to acquire pecuniary wealth. In an environment of increasing globalization, labor-eliminating technology, and an overburdened entitlement system, the position of wealth is necessary for households …
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Is subsistence enough? Examining the impact of household farm bio-diversity on dietary diversity in Bukidnon, Philippines.
… the literature debate exists concerning whether households should focus on increasing income by commercializing and improve their diets by purchasing a more diverse mix of foods, or if households should diversify production at home in order to meet nutritional needs. This thesis uses household …
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New Economics of Venture Capitalism? Assessing the Role of Remittances on Household Entrepreneurship
… receipt on the likelihood to engage in household entrepreneurship in Malawi using cross sectional data from the Fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey 2019-2020 covering 11,434 households. Analysis is made using a bivariate Probit estimation technique on overall households, as well as …
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Determinants of non-farm self-employment in rural Virginia
… research uses primary cross-sectional non-farm-household data collected from Virginia’s non-metropolitan areas for the 1989 year. The primary objective of this research is to identify the factors that influence the probability of being self-employed. Using an effective sample of 851 household …
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Small scale farming on Wetland resource utilisation: a case study of Mandlanzini, Richards Bay
… of their activities and impact on the wetland. Household data collected, gave a clear picture of socio-economic status of the community. The results of the study showed that community members, on the lower end of salary scales, were the ones who relied heavily on raising income by using …
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Improving Earthquake Disaster Models with Post-Event Data: Insights from the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake
<p>Immense amounts of data are collected following earthquake disasters. Yet, it remains unclear how researchers’ might take full advantage of diverse post-disaster datasets. Using data from the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake, this dissertation explores three ways in which post- disaster survey and …
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The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… there remains a dearth of studies that have used household data to test the impact of this asset. Using a panel data set from the Copperbelt Rural Livelihood Enhancement Support Project (CRLESP), this study examines the impact of livestock on household expenditures. Specifically, the study …
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A Topology-Guided Diffusion Process for Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
Synthesizing realistic tabular data is crucial for any analytical application, including policy evaluation related to household energy use. However, detailed household-level consumption data, necessary for such evaluation, are scare at fine geographic scales, as public surveys like the U.S. …
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Comparison of Segment and Pixel Based Non-Parametric Classification of Land Cover in the Amazon Region of Brazil Using Multitemporal Landsat TM/ETM+ Imagery
… methods, with the integration of multitemporal data, performed equally well with overall accuracies ranging from 77% to 91%. Pixel-based CART classification, although not different in terms of mean or median overall accuracy, did have significantly lower variability than all other techniques …
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Three Essays On Migration, Remittances And Human Capital Formation
… analyzes the determinants of remittances using household data from Ecuador. It provides empirical evidence as follows: remittances and household migration size are non-monotonically related, remittances are altruistically motivated, the size of remittances decreases with time after migration and …
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An accessibility-activity based approach for modelling rural travel demand in developing countries
… The research reported in this thesis integrates household accessibility analysis within an activity-based framework to model travel demand. The conceptual development recognised the derived nature of travel. The household access needs are transformed into individual activities through household …
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Social dynamics of energy consumption
… approaches, using secondary and primary household data to determine the direction and significance of the factors with energy demand. I find status perception to be highly significant in driving energy-intensive consumption in terms of car and appliances ownership amongst urban dwellers. …
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