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Quantifying individual-level heterogeneity in infectiousness and susceptibility through household studies

Epidemics, 2023
The spread of SARS-CoV-2, like that of many other pathogens, is governed by heterogeneity. “Superspreading,” or “over-dispersion,” is an important factor in transmission, yet it is hard to quantify.
Thayer L. Anderson, Anjalika Nande, Carter Merenstein, Brinkley Raynor, Anisha Oommen, Brendan J. Kelly, Michael Z. Levy, Alison L. Hill   +7 more
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Exploring urban spatial heterogeneity and socio-environmental attributes of household greenhouse gas emissions

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Understanding urban spatial heterogeneity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sectoral household consumption is crucial to facilitate moves towards low-carbon cities.
Ningyu Yan, Lilai Xu, Lilai Xu, Gengyuan Liu, Gengyuan Liu, Shenghui Cui   +5 more
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Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity [PDF]

, 2016
Abstract The goal of this chapter is to study how, and by how much, household income, wealth, and preference heterogeneity amplify and propagate a macroeconomic shock. We focus on the US Great Recession of 2007–09 and proceed in two steps. First, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document the patterns of household income ...
Dirk Krueger, Kurt Mitman, Fabrizio Perri   +2 more
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Spatial heterogeneity of neighborhood-level water and sanitation access in informal urban settlements: A cross-sectional case study in Beira, Mozambique.

PLOS Water, 2022
Rapid urbanization, resulting in population growth within informal settlements, has worsened exclusion and inequality in access to water and sanitation (WASH) services in the poorest and most marginalized communities.
Courtney Victor, Denisse Vega Ocasio, Zaida A Cumbe, Joshua V Garn, Sydney Hubbard, Magalhaes Mangamela, Sandy McGunegill, Rassul Nalá, Jedidiah S Snyder, Karen Levy, Matthew C Freeman   +10 more
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Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households [PDF]

Annual Review of Economics, 2009
Macroeconomics is evolving from the study of aggregate dynamics to the study of the dynamics of the entire equilibrium distribution of allocations across individual economic actors. This article reviews the quantitative macroeconomic literature that focuses on household heterogeneity, with a special emphasis on the “standard” incomplete markets model ...
Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, Giovanni L. Violante   +2 more
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The effect of variation of individual infectiousness on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in households

eLife, 2023
Quantifying variation of individual infectiousness is critical to inform disease control. Previous studies reported substantial heterogeneity in transmission of many infectious diseases including SARS-CoV-2.
Tim K Tsang, Xiaotong Huang, Can Wang, Sijie Chen, Bingyi Yang, Simon Cauchemez, Benjamin John Cowling   +6 more
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Household debt, heterogeneity and financial stability: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Central Bank Review, 2023
Using a Monte Carlo method and quarterly data from the 2019 Household Expenditure and Income Survey, we examine the resilience of urban and rural households to various shocks, including exchange rate change, changes in asset prices, job losses, and ...
Alisher Aldashev, Birzhan Batkeyev
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Adoption of complementary climate-smart agricultural technologies: lessons from Lushoto in Tanzania

Agriculture & Food Security, 2021
Background Agriculture is important for economic growth and development in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania. However, agricultural production and productivity remain relatively low, with significant yield gaps attributed to ...
Maurice Juma Ogada, Maren Radeny, John Recha, Solomon Dawit   +3 more
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Household Joblessness in U.S. Metropolitan Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Polarization and the Role of Educational Profiles

Socius, 2023
The authors use Current Population Survey 2016 to 2021 quarterly data to analyze changes in household joblessness across metropolitan areas in the United States during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Thomas Biegert, Berkay Özcan, Magdalena Rossetti-Youlton   +2 more
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Does the Level of Financial Cognition Affect the Income of Rural Households? Based on the Moderating Effect of the Digital Financial Inclusion Index

Agronomy, 2021
Financial cognitive ability is an important part of human capital, which has a direct impact on household income. The dual differences composed by rural residents’ cognition level and residents’ income make the relationship between the two complicated ...
Fanqi Zou, Tinghui Li, Feite Zhou
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