Large household reduces dementia mortality: A cross-sectional data analysis of 183 populations.
PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundLarge households/families may create more happiness and offer more comprehensive healthcare among the members. We correlated household size to dementia mortality rate at population level for analysing its protecting role against dementia ...
Wenpeng You, Maciej Henneberg
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Why does the Engel method work? Food demand, economies of size and household survey methods [PDF]
, 2002 Estimates of household size economies are needed for the analysis of poverty and inequality. This paper shows that Engel estimates of size economies are large when household expenditures are obtained by respondent recall but small when expenditures are ...
John Gibson, Gibson, John
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Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer construct with microfoundations. One complex aspect of micro-level
Christos Koulovatianos +2 more
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Old age poverty in the Indian States: What do the household data tell us? [PDF]
, 2006 In the absence of any official measures of old age poverty, this paper uses National Sample Survey household-level data to investigate the extent and nature of living standards and incidence of poverty among elderly in sixteen major states in India. We
Pal, S
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Decomposing changes in household measures: Household size and services in South Africa, 1994-2012
Demographic Research, 2017 Background: Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time or the way in which the ...
Martin Wittenberg +2 more
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Household Sharing for Carbon and Energy Reductions: The Case of EU Countries
Energies, 2020 As households get smaller worldwide, the extent of sharing within households reduces, resulting in rising per capita energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Diana Ivanova, Milena Büchs
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Changes in household average size in Serbia in the second half of the 20th century [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2008 In the last 50 years Serbia has experienced a number of great changes in all fields of social life. Periods of development and periods of great economical, political and social crisis interchanged.
Đorđević Ljiljana
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Household debt in different age cohorts: A multilevel study
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2018 There is a need to identify household debt behaviour in different age cohorts even in countries without prominent household debt problems so that the measures for vulnerable groups can be made.
Wajiha Haq +2 more
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Adoption of Improved Mungbean Production Technologies in Selected East African Countries
Agriculture, 2021 This study analyzes the factors that influence the probability and extent of the adoption of mungbean production technologies in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, using multivariate probit and Poisson regression models.
Frank Mmbando +7 more
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Determinants of the food insecurity at household level in Pakistan: A multilevel model approach.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Food insecurity is a major concern for the developing world and around 37% of the population of Pakistan is food insecure. This paper utilizes the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) to assess the population prevalence of food insecurity and to ...
Tahir Mahmood +4 more
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