Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments have severe consequences for health care access and utilisation and are especially catastrophic for the poor. Although women comprise the majority of the poor in Nigeria and globally, the implications of OOP payments for health care access from a gender perspective have received little attention. This study seeks to fill this gap by using a combination of quantitati...

This paper aims at examining the influence of households’ demographic characteristics on their savings behavior in East African region. The findings show that nearly people all gender and age category Africa practice life cycle model behavior. It is concluded from analysis preference motive differs one country to another. However, it shown education highly ranked countries as most preferred wit...

Climate change has been noticed in the agricultural sector of Nepal which calls for strategies adaptation and resilience building. We assessed influence demographic, institutional factors, farm characteristics on adoption twenty climate practices. used impact survey data 800 households Province 1 analyzed using Poisson regression corrected overdispersion Negative Binomial regression. The result...

nowadays, the female participation rate is known as one of the reasons of societies' development. hence, this study explores some of the effective factors such as education, marital status, age, and female-headed households on female participation probability in labor market. to achieve this goal, by using micro data of household survey in 2011, which is carried out by the statistical cent...

Recent analysts have argued that the female-headed family is responsible for the growth of an "underclass" in America. This study uses longitudinal data taken from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics to address the questions of whether and why offspring in female-headed households are more likely to experience persistent poverty in adulthood. Four hypotheses regarding the effect of a fa...

BACKGROUND Consuming unsafe water results in infections that lead to illness or death from water borne diseases. Though there is an increasing effort from Ethiopian government to access safe water still there are households with limited access of safe water as a result, they depend on rain, well and spring water source for domestic use. However, the water treatment practice with the available t...