This study examined risk factors for reoffending by youth in grandparent-headed homes and those in parent-headed homes. Using data abstracted from the juvenile justice records of youth in a variety of living arrangements, we compared the records of 29 youth living in grandparent-headed homes with those of 37 youth living in parent-headed homes. Youth in grandparent-headed homes were significant...

The Michigan State University (MSU) International Development Paper series is designed to further the comparative analysis of international development activities in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Near East. The papers report research findings on historical, as well as contemporary, international development problems. The series includes papers on a wide range of topics, such as alternati...

The crop sector in Burkina Faso has been facing recurrent droughts since 1970. This study analyzes the impacts of and adaptation options such as use irrigation capacity development methods, integrated soil management drought-tolerant varieties on sector. Indeed, we focus consequences agricultural economic growth employment gender dimension household poverty. Using a gendered dynamic computable ...

If not adequately managed, climate change is predicted to have a large negative impact on smallholder subsistence farmers, posing significant danger household food security. However, the role of adaptive techniques used by farming households reduce these effects and, as result, their insecurity status has been sufficiently evaluated. This study explores factors that influence farmers’ adoption ...

Transitory and permanent shocks to income have been shown to be important determinants of household consumption. This paper shows that there are signifi cant diff erences in the development of transitory and permanent inequality of household income between demographic groups since the 1980s. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics the educational attainment and the composition of a h...

This study determines the nature of village economics in the town of Biharamulo, Tanzania, and in four surrounding villages. This study also identifies the links between the villages and the town and the extent of differences between village households. Town population in 1993 was 20,000 persons, or 1020 households, of which 29.4% were female-headed. Only 7.1% of village households were head...

BACKGROUND Household food insecurity and lack of education are two of the most remarkable deprivations which developing countries are currently experiencing. Evidences from different studies showed that health and nutrition problems are major barriers to educational access and achievement in low-income countries which poses a serious challenge on effort towards the achieving Sustainable Develop...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) coated with ester-headed or ether-headed PEG ligands were synthesized. Ester-headed AuNPs, but not ether-headed, were transferred from the organic phase (CH2Cl2) to the alkali aqueous phase, indicating that the hydrolysis of the ester moiety triggered the phase transfer of the AuNPs. We found that AuNPs with ester-headed ligands (ester-AuNPs) were internalized into He...

This paper examines the factors determining adoption and use of solar photovoltaic (PVs) technologies in Uganda using detailed 2018/2019 Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) household data. The data were analyzed with a Probit model Multivariate model. We found that major drivers PVs are: savings, income, education, age head, size. However, households urban areas, access to grid electrici...

Non-existent micro-level estimates on the impact of migration on livelihood in rural areas in Kenya, compounded with minimal literature on the same, called for this study. This study used secondary data from the 2005 to 2015 African Wildlife Foundation Livelihoods dataset from Kilimanjaro landscape, with the purpose was of undertaking a comparative livelihood analysis between the in-migrant and...