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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Household wealth"”.
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Housing assistance and the creation of household wealth
… recipients of rental subsidies begin to build household wealth through homeownership. Its core beneficiaries are households in Boston and Cambridge earning between 60% and 80% of the area median income. It also proposes an extended program to help households earning between 80% and 135% AMI …
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The relationship between household wealth and HIV prevalence in Ethiopia
… religion, marital status, place of residence, household wealth, education, occupation and others) and behavioural risk factors. The present study took advantage of this dataset to describe the relationships between SES and demographic factors and HIV prevalence in the Ethiopian adult …
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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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Migrant remittances, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and energy poverty in Sri Lanka
… was used as a case study, using more than 78,000 households from four waves of the Household Income and Expenditure survey from 2009 – 2019. Specifically, this thesis includes three empirical studies and one policy paper related to remittances and energy consumption. The first study found that …
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Socioeconomic Status and Health Behavior in Nepal
… This study aimed to construct an asset-based wealth index to estimate household wealth; and to develop and test prediction models for tobacco use and physical activity in a community-based sample of adults in Dhulikhel, central Nepal. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study using data …
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Socioeconomic Determinants of Health and Well-Being in a Low Resource Setting: A Case of Older Adults Living in a Rural Setting in Northwestern Cambodia
… between subjective and objective SES (household wealth and economic fulfillment) and well-being outcomes. Results indicate that economic fulfillment have a stronger association with psychological well-being compared to household wealth, which substantiates the sigificance of ones’ …
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Influences on Children's Human Capital in Rural Malawi
… in Malawi suggest that children's health-wealth gradient can vary from other settings. This dissertation begins with a description of the methods used to create a household wealth variable using assets data in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health project. By using a fixed …
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A quantitative analysis of socioeconomic position and the occurrence of violence in South Africa
… (operationalised as employment, education and household wealth) plays a role in determining rates of violence within South Africa.
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Socioeconomic status and diabetes among Mexican adults
… with previous studies, we use individual, household and municipality measures of SES simultaneously when investigating: prevalence of total, diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes in the year 2000; and incidence of diagnosed diabetes during the period 2002-2005. Furthermore, we explore the …
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Determinants of wealth in South Africa
This paper investigates the determinants of household wealth in South Africa, using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2. In particular, we look at the effect s of the wealth-age profile and other household demographic variables. The hump-shaped profile of the wealth and age …
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Essays on liquidity in macroeconomics
… evidence of a decreasing relationship between household wealth and the variability of consumption expenditure. The evidence is consistent with the presence of a precautionary motive for wealth accumulation. The fourth essay (joint with F. Broner) shows that the time series of the spreads on …
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Three Essays on the Supply of Long-Term Care Services to the Elderly in the U.S.
… parents leads to a reduction in adult children’s household wealth. Towards this, I construct a longitudinal dataset from seven waves of HRS. Estimates from unconditional quantile regressions indicate that parental dementia substantially reduces household wealth of an unmarried adult child in the …
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Parental Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Learning in the School, Home and Community in Rural India.
… children’s schooling and learning, than their wealthier counterparts. School actors and community leaders often attribute this to parents living in poverty being unaware of, or simply indifferent to, their children’s educational needs. However, mothers from these less affluent groups maintain …
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Essays in Modern Macroeconomics
… natural real interest rate decreases by more as households look to smooth a larger increase in consumption, which is boosted by a rise in both the quantity and quality of the goods they consume. As a result, monetary policy responds by altering the nominal interest rate by more for a given …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… widowhood is negatively correlated with one's household income, wealth, and mental health, especially for women. More specifically, becoming a widow is associated with a decline in household income of 54% and a decrease in household wealth of 9.5%. In the long run, however, a gradual recovery …
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Socioeconomic inequities of malaria prevalence in under-five children in Ghana between 2016 and 2019
… variables included socio-economic status (household wealth), age of child, mother's education, place of stay, region and a few others. Our study applied the concentration indices and curves to assess socioeconomic inequalities in malaria prevalence among under-five children and decomposing …
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Women's Use of Quality Maternal Healthcare Services Across the Continuum in Low and lower-middle-income Countries, With a Focus on Ethiopia.
… birth spacing, and higher maternal education and household wealth indices were positive predictors of quality care across the continuum. In contrast, women who had to gain permission to seek medical care and reported a lack of companionship and longer distances to healthcare facilities as barriers …
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Understanding ECE Policies, Access to, and Learning Outcomes from ECE among Refugees and Nationals in Uganda: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
… a market-driven system primarily serving wealthier Ugandan nationals and a humanitarian model that facilitates access for refugee children through donor-funded, non-state provision. Notably, 47% of refugee children accessed ECE compared to 26% of national children, reflecting significant …
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Socioeconomic differentials in child stunting in rural and urban areas in Zambia
… residing in rural areas and less-privileged households continue to fall behind their peers from urban areas and wealthier households in Zambia and other LMICs. Notably, studies have shown that children residing in rural areas and less privileged households have a higher risk and burden of …
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Determinants of spouse/partner informal caregiving and its impacts on informal caregivers' physical, psychological health and economic well-being: evidence from the health and retirement study
… physical health), psychological health, or household wealth (including assets and income). The analysis considering predisposing, enabling, and need factors from both care recipients and caregivers to unravel the complicated caregiving phenomena are presented. Implications for research, …
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