The research aimed to estimate income diversification and investigate demographic, socioeconomic, institutional factors that determine the smallholder farmer’s of in Sodo Zuria district, southern Ethiopia. Cross-sectional data were collected from 353 randomly selected households. Simpson Index Diversity was used summarize diversification, Tobit econometric model implemented explore affecting fa...

The significance of rural income generation is obvious for well-being enhancement and development in particular widely national development. research carried on pattern analysis enabling to detect the ways achieve so far, improvement. discussions about diversification aim have mainly been divided one hand maximization household objective by increasing output, other hand, risk seasonality manage...

This paper develops a dynamic model of the decisions on the quantity and quality of children that is based on two premises: (1) the quality of children is uncertain when parents make a human capital investment decision, and (2) the quality distributions of two children of a woman are less correlated if they are fathered by different men than by the same man due to genetic inheritance. It natura...