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Showing 1 to 20 of 2589 for “"Households."”.
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Financial decisions of households
Left-digit bias refers to the tendency of individuals to focus attention on the leftmost digit of numerical information when making decisions. This paper tests for the existence of left-digit bias in the consumer credit card market. Using a regression-discontinuity design, I find sharp increases in …
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Energy advisory services at households
El incremento de la eficiencia energética es uno de los objetivos prioritarios para lograr un desarrollo sostenible. La compañía EDP ha lanzado diferentes programas para promocionar la eficiencia energética. Una de estas iniciativas, focalizada en los hogares, es el proyecto ¿Ecofamilias¿. Con la …
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Consumption patterns of poor households
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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
<p>The United States is the only country not offering paid parental leave. Paid leave is left at the discretion of employers and only a few states offer Paid Family Leave benefits. The FMLA was established to protect workers from losing their jobs in case they needed to care for an elderly person …
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Three-Generation Family Households and Child Wellbeing
… or correlates of three-generation family households or looked at the association between three-generation family coresidence and child wellbeing during early childhood. To fill this gap in the literature this dissertation was structured around three empirical chapters (papers) and the …
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Evaluating the Economics of Gluten-Free Households
<p>Over the past two decades, the diagnoses of gluten allergies and celiac disease has increased significantly. Although there has been no development of a cure for either ailment, these conditions can be managed by the elimination of glutenous foods from a person’s diet. In previous studies, the …
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Broadband diffusion in households of South Africa
This research attempts to investigate the adoption, use and impact of broadband services from a holistic point of view encompassing the factors influencing the adoption, use and impact of broadband. This study explores the broadband developments in South Africa and discusses the challenges faced in …
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Delivering Locally Sourced Nutritious Food to Indian Households
… address protein-energy malnutrition among poor households in India. While the country is the largest producer of pulses, milk, and other dairy products, and many food grains, Indian diets are traditionally low in protein intake, especially among the poor. Within our scope of the problem, we …
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The Economics of Smallholder Households in Central Haiti
Smallholder households in Haiti face many natural resource management challenges. Agricultural production occurs on deforested hillsides prone to erosion. Charcoal is in an important source of income, and woodfuel stocks are often over-exploited. Donor-funded projects and non- governmental …
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Idiosyncratic Income Shocks, Access to Credit, and Households' Welfare in an Agrarian Economy: Micro -Econometric Studies on Rural Households in Bangladesh
… to explain this observed behavior of farm households are portfolio selection, input fixity, safety first, and learning and farmers' experimentation . The validity of these theories is empirically investigated for farm households in Bangladesh. Our empirical results show that the theory of …
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AGRICULTURAL INCOME AND CHILDREN'S EDUCATION IN RURAL INDIAN HOUSEHOLDS
More than 60% of India's rural households depend on agriculture. Therefore, income from farming is dependent on receiving timely rain. In this study, we look at the effect of shocks to agricultural income on education expenditure for school going children. Using India Human Development Survey, a …
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Racial differences in households' financial asset allocation, 1992-2004
… this study investigated racial differences in households' financial asset allocation over the years. This study categorized the financial assets into four categories: equities held directly or indirectly, bonds held directly or indirectly, cash account and other financial asset. Based on …
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Essays on the financial behavior of corporations and households
… otherwise not be received. This paper finds that households covered with pension plans in which the employee must decide upon investments are significantly more apt to hold stock outside of their retirement plan relative to households with plans offering no choice. The third essay investigates the …
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Rent payment and housing consumption patterns of renter households.
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Selected economic behaviors of specified female-heads of households
… selected economic behaviors of female heads of households. The objectives were to determine (1) selected economic behaviors of single female heads of households, (2) selected economic behaviors of divorced female heads of households, (3) selected economic behaviors of separated female heads of …
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Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia
Colombia suffers from one of the longest civil conflicts in the world, which isbelieved to have had several consequences on the country’s economic and developmentperformance. This study uses measures of central government deterrenceeffort as instruments of conflict to estimate the impact of …
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Solar Panels as an option for households in the UK
Households are encouraged to invest in solar panels with schemes that the government has in place as part their battle to cut emission and tackle climate change. The objective of this research project was to find out if investing in solar panels is an realistic option for household in the UK. …
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Economic impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households in KwaDlangezwa
… the economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on the rural households in KwaDlangezwa. The study also investigates the hypothesis that Aids has massive economic impact on families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. At the level of the household, AIDS results in the loss of income, assets, savings and an …
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