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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"household decision-making"”.
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Intra-Household Decision Making
… one (Chapter three), "Gains and Losses from Household Formation," I introduce a general equilibrium model, wherein a household may consist of more than one member, each with their own preferences and endowments. In these models at first, individuals form households. Then, collective decisions …
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Essays on household decision making in developing countries
This dissertation contains three essays on household decision making in the areas of education and health in developing countries. The first chapter explores intra-household decision making in the context of conditional cash transfer programs in education. This study provides an empirical test of …
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Essays on Farm Household Decision-Making: Evidence from Vietnam
… analysis and empirical evidence on the decision-making of farm households under shocks and imperfect markets in Vietnam. The first study attempts to investigate the effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis on the investment, saving and consumption decisions of household producers by …
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Essays in the economics of retirement income security and household decision-making
… first essay of this thesis studies within-family decision making regarding investment in income protection for surviving spouses using a simple and tractable Nash-bargaining model. A change in US pension law (the Retirement Equity Act of 1984) is used as an instrument to derive predictions from …
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Gendered Power Relations and Household Decision Making in Rural Ghana. A study of Zambo in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region of Ghana
… and how such power dynamics impact women’s household decision-making powers. Drawing on African feminist epistemologies and feminist standpoint theories, this research drew significantly from the experiences and narratives of 10 rural women, who form the most marginalized demographic in …
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Does It Matter Who We Ask in Household Surveys? A Study on Gendered Effects and Decision Making Processes in Ecuador
The understanding of how households make decisions may improve the success of an economic development program and enhance targeted training efforts. Technology adoption and farm management decisions depend on household decision making. If a relevant decision maker can be clearly identified and …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
… that affect women's bargaining power within the household, in India. The first chapter introduces the literature on household bargaining mostly by describing how household outcomes like children's health indicators and expenditure pattern change with increase in resources under women's control. …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
… AIS interventions on cassava productivity and household welfare? (c) what are the causal factors influencing the choice of cassava seed access sources? (d) what are the determinants of cassava technology adoption? (e) what is the impact of improved-uncertified cassava seed adoption on cassava …
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Risk and Protective Factors of Intimate Partner Violence in India: Evidence From the 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey
… educational attainment and greater share of household decision making are found to be protective factors of IPV, whereas women's employment and approval attitudes toward IPV are both associated with greater risk of IPV.
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The role of the disability grant in the lives of visually disabled adults on the Cape Flats
… costs; disability grant expenditure as well as household decision-making on expenses. Methodology: The study uses a qualitative descriptive research design, which explores and documents the lived experiences of visually disabled adults on the Cape Flats who are the recipients of disability …
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ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
… recently available large-scale administrative, household, and firm data, as well as latest developments in causal inference techniques, this dissertation makes forays into three relatively uncharted research areas on these topics. On the economic impact of immigration, the first chapter examines …
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A theoretical model for education production and an empirical test of the relative importance of school and nonschool inputs
… A theoretical model that combines public l and household decision making into an education production process is used as the basis for the empirical model that is developed. The estimated model includes input measures for school, family, volunteer and student inputs to education production and …
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It Takes a Village to Do Microfinance Right: Effects of Microfinance on Gender Relations in Bali
… owned microfinance – affects women's agency in household and society, and most importantly to observe if it has long term effects on the reconstruction of gendered roles and relations. This study employed participation observation and semi-structured interviews for data collection because each …
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Women Empowerment and socioeconomic inequality in immunization coverage: a case study of Zambia
… (ZDHS), which are nationally representative household surveys [12]. This dataset incorporates information regarding children from 0 to 59 months and for men and women aged 15- 49 years old. The two main study variables are women empowerment and immunisation. Immunisation was divided into …
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Exploring the importance of financial literacy within the Capability Approach framework
… examined is the role of financial literacy in household financial decision-making authority. Previous studies have used household decision-making authority as a reflection of agency, which is an important building block of the capability approach. This thesis focuses on financial decision …
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Three essays on forestry economics and management
… a single disturbance leads to suboptimal harvest decisions. The second essay further extends the natural disturbance literature by considering the amenity value of unharvested forests in addition to timber value. As before, multiple types of disturbances as well as flexible harvest timing are …
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Increasing forest cover amidst expanding commercial agriculture: An agent-based simulation of markets and rural livelihoods in the Indian Himalayas
… agriculture with deforestation, analysis of household survey data and forest measurements in a group of 17 neighboring villages in the Indian Himalayas revealed a positive correlation between the level of commercial agriculture and forest cover. Commercial agriculture channels resources away …
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Essays on early childhood development and family economics
… of children's development in disadvantaged households. I study how socioeconomic conditions, parenting, child care choices, and parent's innate ability determine cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of their children. I also examine how effective policy interventions can help to reduce …
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Exploring Women Farmers' Experiences: A Case Study of Gender Inequality on Small Turkish Farms
… may be produced, and whether the lives of rural households are enhanced or diminished. Yet, gender influences who has access to these resources and what level of access they have. Although women work in the fields, the homes, outside the farm, and at the markets, their male counterparts often …
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Essays on Development Economics: Families, Child Human Capital, and Migration
… to advance our understanding of individual, household and family behavior.</p><p>Using these population-level data, the first chapter is an evaluation of a prominent anti-poverty program, Oportunidades, on child nutrition. Oportunidades was a leading intervention in targeting resources …
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