I will set the problem up as a decentralized model, studying first the behavior of households and then the behavior of firms. There are two primary ways of setting the model up, which both yield identical solutions. In both households own the firms, but management and ownership are distinct, and so households behave as though firm profits are given. In one formulation firms own the capital stoc...

Overseas remittances are a vital source of income for many households in developing economies, yet little is known about the characteristics of the sender households. We begin by examining what motivates households to send money to other households living abroad. We then model the remittance behaviour of a diverse set of ethnic minority groups living in England and Wales using survey data. Our ...

During the financial and economic crisis the financial situation of CESEE households deteriorated significantly. Stagnating and in some countries falling disposable income forced households to adjust their consumption plans quite substantially, not least because social security systems in CESEE are still less advanced than in many Western European countries. Against this background this short s...

because of national and international importance of the anzali international wetland, this study attempts to determine the preservation value and estimate willingness to pay (wtp) by iranian households for preserving this wetland, using contingent valuation method. a logit model was employed with maximum likelihood estimation procedure. results showed, education level of householder, informativ...

This study examines the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Australian households which had mobile phones, and their expenditure on mobile phone services. The study is based on data collected in the Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the ABS in 19981999 in a nationally representative sample of households. Our findings indicate that in 1998-1999 there were 2.66 million house...

Previous research has shown that households are sensitive to commuting distance. In particular, households beyond a threshold distance move closer to the job when they change residence. The questions which motivate this paper are-how does race affect the probability of moving closer to the job when households change residence, and is there a trade off between commuting distance and neighborhood...

BACKGROUND HIV and negative coping mechanisms have a cyclical relationship. HIV infections may lead to the adoption of coping strategies, which may have undesired, negative consequences. We present data on the various coping mechanisms that HIV-affected households in Ghana resort to. METHODS We collected data on coping strategies, livelihood activities, food consumption, and asset wealth from...

Rural households in Nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make informed decision on secured coping strategies which is further aggravated by some households’ specific socio-economic characteristics. Attempts were made to identify shocks being faced by households’ heads and coping strategies. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 80 respondents and well ...

In Nigeria, crowded housing is one of the housing stresses that bother policy-makers and housing authorities.This study examines the crowding levels in seven marital status categories among the occupants of Lagos State Development and Property Corporation’s apartments. The focus is on the capacity of an apartment’s internal spaces to meet the sleeping needs of households in different marital ar...

Cooking oils are among the most important dietary components. Some of the influential factors in the combustion pattern of cooking oils include the mode of cooking, knowledge of the diseases caused by cooking oils, and price of cooking oils. This cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study was conducted in the winter of 2018. The research units were selected via simple random sampling. The sa...