OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to test the construct validity, internal consistency and convergent validity of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) in measuring household food insecurity in rural Tanzania, and to determine socio-economic characteristics associated with household food insecurity. DESIGN Key informant interviews and a cross-sectional survey were co...

UK Households’ Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more li...

This paper presents empirical data on household expenditure on domestic fuel and power in New South Wales. Consumer behaviour relating to class, family life-cycle and demographics was examined. Our findings indicate distinct variations across household type, size and income, and both the age and sex of the reference person of the household. Ethnicity was not found to be a significant factor. Th...

Introduction Education is an organized process leading to the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and skills forward to the status of proficiency. It’s a continuous and dynamic process where attaining each goal opens the perspective of new aims, enabling to structure more efficient strategies for tasks’ execution. In the medical practice, this definition flows through a pre-clinical cycle of hu...

This dissertation consists of four empirical studies, each using military-induced variation to examine various aspects of human capital production and the U.S. labor market. The first two chapters study the effects of social interactions on human capital development at the United States Military Academy where social groups are randomly assigned. Chapter 1 highlights the empirical difficulties a...