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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"household demand"”.
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ESSAYS ON HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR CREDIT CARDS, BANKRUPTCY AND OVER-SPENDING
Studying household finance and behavior is important not only for understanding the micro level behavior, but also to have a better understanding of the whole economy. The study of household behavior become even more important after the 2007 housing crises, and the giant effect it had (and is still …
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Schooling in Mexico: An Evaluation of Private Costs as a Determinant of Household Demand for Education, and the Benefits of a Free Textbook Program
… costs is extensive, studies that examine household, or private, costs for education are scarce. I use data from the 2005 Mexican Family Life Survey first to examine the nature of these private costs for Mexican families and second to determine to what extent direct schooling costs incurred …
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Modeling Daily Power Demand in Southern Kentucky: A Single Household Approach
… regression (LOESS), to forecast a 24 hour demand profile at the household level and compare it to existing aggregate demand models discussed in literature. Of these aggregate demand models, a quadratic autoregressive model was selected to be used as a basis for comparison with the LOESS …
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Essays on cognition in development economics
… quite large, willingness to pay is low and that household demand and realized savings are uncorrelated, which suggests biases may play a significant role in adoption decisions.
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Further investigation into the role of education in the demand for health care
… services. Starting from the premise that the household’s stock of health capital is a nondurable commodity which depreciates over time; that it can be augmented by investment; that the household production function for gross investment in health capital stock is homogeneous of degree one in …
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Addressing water scarcity in urban Tanzania: household preferences, behavioural interventions, and technological adoption
… water shortages. Between 2019 and 2023, water demand in Dar es Salaam increased by 16%, while daily production declined by 11.72%. The escalating water scarcity forces households to rely on unsafe sources, raising the risk of contamination. Addressing these challenges requires improved water …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… (FFP) industry. We first estimate a model of household demand in Mar del Plata, Argentina, using scanner data and demographic information. We find that higher income individuals are more concerned about health and nutrition, and that younger and lower-income consumers are more price-sensitive. …
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Life cycle investment behavior, demographics and asset prices
… This is done in two steps. First, survey data on household asset holdings is used to construct age profiles of household demand for housing, stocks, bonds, and debt. These asset demand profiles are combined with data on the age distribution of the U.S. population to construct time series measures …
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THREE ESSAYS ON FIRST NATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
… data collected from a comprehensive survey of household spending by two First Nations in Saskatchewan, Canada, I use Input-Output models to refine regional multipliers for these distinct populations. Results indicate that economic leakage rates for First Nation economies is roughly 90 percent; …