This paper investigates the extent to which households in rural Thailand across income distribution are able mitigate risks face of shocks. It uses especially high-quality household and consumption data spanning 64 Thai villages over 15 years. The identifies shocks by village-level variations during drought conditions. finds that richer better risk than poorer households, contrast some studies ...

Based on panel data around 5,500 German household heads originating from four years, this paper analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to Corona pandemic has affected three kinds personal traits and preferences: willingness take risks, patience, locus control. Our empirical results indicate that patience control remain unchanged by pandemic-related losses, whereas we find a sig...

Poverty eradication is one of the global challenges, and land transfer provides an effective path to address farmers’ poverty; however, effect poverty reduction can show heterogeneity depending on location, household, head household. This study employs propensity value matching technique compare effects future alleviation among farm households, based vulnerability as expected poverty, using dat...

This study used 510 representative households to profile the poverty status of rural farming households in North Central Nigeria based on gender of the household heads. The Foster, Greer and Thorbecke class of weighted poverty indices as well as social indicators were used as analytical tools. The results of the study showed that the female-headed households were disadvantaged on all counts wit...

In this study, we examined dietary diversity of women in cassava farming households South-West, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to collect data on 352 comprising 212 members (158 child-bearing age (20-49 years) and 54 above 49 between December 2019 March 2020 Oyo Ogun States The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) questionnaire adapted obtain the scores (DDS) child bear...

Introduction:A large proportion of the Ethiopian population (approximately 68%) lives in malaria risk areas. Millions of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) have been distributed as part of the malaria prevention and control strategy in the country. This study assessed the ownership, access and use of LLNs in the malaria endemic southwest Ethiopia. Methods: A community-based cross-sec...

this study examined the nature and patterns of rice consumption in nigeria, using kwara state as a case study. the study methodology comprised a two stage sampling technique which was used to survey 110 rice consumer households across two villages and six towns in kwara state. analytical tools used in the study include descriptive statistics and the multinomial logit model. the major factors th...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Oyo is an urban community in Oyo state of south-western Nigeria and it is holoendemic for malaria. Information was collected on the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of inhabitants of Oyo town in relation to malaria. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 192 households with the aid of self- or researcher-administered questionnaires was carried out to identify fact...

Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on financial and real wealth and household income, is used as an instrument for attained education in a standard log earnings equation. I find that,...

The majority of the poor lack access to bank accounts and have to use costly informal savings mechanisms. Using a field experiment, I randomly gave access to simple bank accounts with no fees at local bank branches to a large sample of female household heads in Nepal. Results show that there is untapped demand for savings accounts and that the poor do save. Access to the savings accounts increa...