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...

OBJECTIVE Smoking behavior is strongly influenced by the social environment. More information is needed about how the composition of households with children is associated with adult smoking behavior so that more effective interventions to reduce children's secondhand smoke exposure can be devised and implemented. METHODS Using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2000-2004, we cond...

Using a field survey in informal Syrian refugee camps Lebanon, this paper analyses coping strategies and demonstrates how severe become way of life. It addresses each refugee’s strategic choices are determined by an environment that is conceptualized via four dimensions displacement: the civil host community, national international policy, humanitarian aid, addition to individual characteristic...

Abstract The frequency and intensity of climatic variables as indicators climate change have been increasingly recognised global crisis with significant impact on biodiversity, household food security gender roles. This study therefore analysed vulnerability smallholder farming households to variability in North-central Nigeria. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used select 768 respon...

In this paper, I examine the differences in health outcomes between children residing poor and non-poor households. order to identify household poverty, make use of framework multidimensional poverty as introduced by Alkire Foster (Journal Public Economics, 95(7–8), 2011). follow status (defined individuals aged 18 years or younger) over period 2012- 2017, using last three waves South African N...

Poverty rates are particularly high among households headed by single women, and childbirth is often the event preceding these households' poverty spells. This paper examines the relationship between legal access to the birth control pill and female poverty. We rely on exogenous cross-state variation in the year in which oral contraception became legally available to young, single women. Using ...

I use the experience of China’s One Child Policy to examine how fertility restrictions affect economic and social outcomes over the lifetime. The One Child Policy imposed a birth quota and heavy penalties for “out-of-plan” births. Using variation in the fertility penalties across provinces over time, I examine how fertility restrictions imposed early in the lives of individuals affected their e...

This study examined behaviors of African American male adolescents, resulting from father absence. It further examined the extent to which there is a relation between African American boys’ behavior and their status as sons of an absent father. Effects of father absence was approached by researching articles and journals comparing African American males raised in female headed household to Afri...

This study assessed lesbian couples' division of labor, their satisfaction with division of labor and with their relationships, and their children's psychosocial adjustment. The 26 participating families were headed by lesbian couples, each of whom had at least 1 child between 4 and 9 years of age. Parents' relationship satisfaction was generally high but was unrelated to measures of parental d...