Abstract Evaluating a new survey of German consumers, we test whether individual consumption spending decisions are formed according to Euler equation model. We find that consumers more likely increase current if they plan in the future and expect higher inflation. In subsample financially literate households, an additional negative effect nominal interest rate expectations. The effects macroec...

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...

OBJECTIVE It is hypothesised that mothers' social networks can positively affect child nutrition through the sharing of health knowledge and other resources. The present study describes the composition of mothers' networks, examines their association with child nutrition, and assesses whether health knowledge is shared within networks. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional data for mothers of yo...

rain-water-harvesting is one of the means by which agricultural production can be increased to meet the growing food demands in all regions. the study indentified the factor affecting rain-water-harvesting technology adoption for irrigation and farmers practice in water harvesting against drought in lowland woreda, eastern hararghe, oromia region. both primary and secondary data were collected ...

Introduction. Currently, Ethiopia, in particular, the rural areas of faces high levels food insecurity. In spite fact that there have been many studies on security, most them conducted specific national settings. Hence, determinants insecurity should be assessed at level. Therefore, this study was primarily aimed to identify determinant factors household Ethiopia. Method. A cross-sectional Ethi...

This study examined the waste management beliefs and practices of selected households in a Philippine rural municipality.  The sample used for this study involved rural families comprising of 332 households, which was drawn from the population using multistage cluster unequal allocation sampling technique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data gathered. Findings show that households e...