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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Indian Households"”.
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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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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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An investigation of the relationships among homegardens, dietary diversity, and the nutritional status of children aged 0 to 5 in Indian households
Using micro level household survey data from India, I investigate the variation in the presence of the household homegardens, the household dietary diversity and the nutritional status of children between the ages of 0 to 5. The investigative analysis using household survey data from India for the …
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An investigation into out of pocket health expenditure in India
… provides policy suggestions that can enhance the Indian healthcare sector. Using nationally representative household data (2011-12) collected by the National Sample Survey Organization, three research areas have been examined: incidence and determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) and …
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Saving by Lumbee Indians: Toward a theory of financial practices from yesterday and today
… practices, and norms of saving in American Indian tribal communities, specifically the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. How Lumbee adults living in the community save financial resources, what they are saving for, and how those resources are spent are examined. Further, intergenerational …
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Essays in Development and Labor Economics
… on a different population, of the poorest Indian households, and studies whether a “big-push” program providing these households with a large asset transfer can durably lift them out of poverty. The first chapter examines the extent and sources of gender differences in employers' monopsony …
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Architecture and unit design of a capital cost optimized, household electrodialysis desalination device with continuous flow
… water desalination are necessary in the urban Indian setting. Currently, a majority of point-of-use (POU) purifiers use reverse osmosis (RO) to desalinate household water. However, RO purifiers waste up to 70% of the feed water when used in the domestic context. Electrodialysis (ED) is a …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
… Survey). The survey was conducted in over 40,000 Indian households, which covers over 200,000 individuals. In the third chapter, I investigate the effect of women's labor force participation on her involvement in household decision making. After addressing the issues of endogeneity using a fixed …
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Social Safety Net Programs and Household Behavior
… Survey, a nationally representative survey of Indian households, to study the impact of expanding government food aid on child labor and school attendance. Beginning 2001, the Indian state of Chhattisgarh implemented reforms to the traditional public distribution system (PDS) that purchased …
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The levels and patterns of racial residential desegregation in Cape Town
… In-depth interviews were conducted with black households in these areas. The 1996 Census was used to assess the levels of desegregation and explore the characteristics of desegregation emerging in Cape Town. The gradual movement of black households to the former white group areas was1 found as …
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Development of a decision support tool for planning municipal solid waste management systems in India
… is a significant challenge for India. The Indian waste landscape is changing rapidly as the population grows, the composition of the waste generated evolves, the extent of waste segmentation changes and the technologies available to collect and process waste improve. Many solutions have …
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A Social Logic of Energy: A data science approach to understanding and modelling energy transitions of India’s urban poor
… traditional solid biomass fuels for cooking in Indian households poses a serious public health risk. Particulate emissions in the form of soot contributed to approximately 600,000 deaths in 2019, a burden that falls disproportionately on women, children, and vulnerable populations. Despite over …
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An application of synthetic panel data to poverty analysis in South Africa
… cohorts in urban settlements and in White and Indian households have a higher percentage share of their income coming from labour market sources. On the other hand, birth cohorts with female headship and residing in rural, African and in Coloured households are more reliant on social grants. …