Sökning: "Household surveys"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 56 uppsatser innehållade orden Household surveys.

  1. 16. Why People Are Moving Out of Agriculture: Micro-Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Jasmin Bina; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Rural Non-Farm Economy; Ethiopia; Uganda; Push Factors; Pull Factors; Capacity Factors; Multinomial Logit Model; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This paper studies the determinants shaping the likelihood of being active in the non-farm sector in the rural economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, the push, pull and capacity factors for a cross-sectional sample of rural Uganda and Ethiopia are explored. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Understanding health inequalities in the 21st century: the case of UHC in Peru

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Andrea Chacon Cid; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Universal Health Coverage; public health; health insurance; development; health-poverty trap; probit model.; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Health is a universal right, nevertheless, not all people have the same opportunities to fully enjoy it without facing financial difficulties. Universal Health Coverage has the potential to break the health-poverty trap, supporting people with the opportunity of building a healthy structure, essential for a sustainable human and economic development. LÄS MER

  4. 18. The Opportunity Cost of Households´ Recycling Efforts : The Role of Norms and Warm-Glow Motives

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle

    Författare :Sara Andersson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :curbside recycling; norms; opportunity cost of time; household efforts; fastighetsnära insamling; normer; alternativkostnad av tid; hushållens börda;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to examine households´ preferences towards relaxing the time demanding aspects of transporting sorted packaging waste. According to welfare economics, households should be willing to pay an amount equal to their reservation wage to benefit from more leisure time. However, specific types of norms, e.g. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Resisting El Niño : an investigation into coping strategies to flood-related disasters in the Rímac river basin, Peru

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Conrad Jarman; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Flood-related disasters; Disaster risk management; Disaster risk reduction; Coping strategies; Coping capacity; El Niño Costero; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Flood-related disasters pose one of the greatest contemporary challenges to development. Analysing and developing effective local coping strategies to flood-related disasters is crucial if at-risk communities are to successfully mitigate the impact of natural hazards whilst not compromising long-term development objectives. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Extraordinary or Ordinary at Best? - An Empirical Study on the Application of Machine Learning Tools for Proxy Means Tests in Poverty Targeting

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Nicolas Leicht; Colja Maser; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Poverty targeting; Proxy means tests; Machine learning; Household surveys;

    Sammanfattning : Proxy means tests are a widely used approach in development programs where the beneficiaries need to be determined through targeting. These tests apply a standard econometric method, ordinary least squares, to predict consumption levels using household characteristics as input variables. LÄS MER