Gender considerations, such as the division of household labour and coordination everyday practices, are important for energy transition households. Household involves practices (e.g. cooking, laundry caring others) (e.g. managing digital technologies systems). Emerging smart require flexibility efficiency, thereby introducing new forms can have implications which not well understood. ...

With decades of economic growth and socio-economic transformation, China’s residential sector has seen rapid expansion in energy consumption, and is now the second largest energy consuming sector in the country. Faced with challenges of energy resource depletion and natural environment deterioration, China has been intensifying its efforts on energy conservation and emissions reductions in the ...

The main work of this project is the characterization of household waste and its equivalent energy recovery of the household waste management in the urban areas. Primary and secondary data were used for the manuscript. In the total amount of the waste 87% is vegetable, 4% grass and wood, 1% plastic, 2% is paper and only 1% metal were found. The moisture content as discarded waste was found 68.0...

BACKGROUND To better understand how stock-outs of the first line antimalarial, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) and other non-compliant health worker behaviour, influence household expenditures during care-seeking for fever in the Ulanga District in Tanzania. METHODS We combined weekly ACT stock data for the period 2009-2011 from six health facilities in the Ulanga District in Tanz...

This paper provides an empirical contribution to the current debate about the suitability of the collective model proposed by Chiappori (1988, 1992) for analysing intrahousehold behaviour in the labour supply context. We follow Chiappori et al.(2002) and we extend the model considering differences in the education level between the two members of the couple as a potential distribution factor. M...

The main objective of the study is to identify household consumption pattern in Pakistan. To fulfill objective, research incorporates microdata expenditure on twenty food and nonfood groups for period 2018- 19. Different socioeconomic demographic variables are also used explain behaviour. It concluded that most share non-food commodities has increased due an increase per capita income, but at a...