Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe This paper complements conventional economic analysis and presents a social norms interpretation to explain cross-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in particular. We argue that increases in female human capital – by raising th...

Child diarrhea is one of the primary causes of infant death in the world. It affects poor populations in developing countries who do not have access to clean water or sanitation. Due to the limited resources that can be allocated to its solution in developing countries, new methods try to be sustainable and scalable in cost-effective ways. One such intervention funded by the Acumen Fund is a ma...

OBJECTIVES To study private costs and other determinants of access to healthcare for childhood fevers in rural Tanzania. METHODS A case-control study was conducted in Tanzania to establish factors that determine access to a health facility in acute febrile illnesses in children less than 5 years of age. Carers of eligible children were interviewed in the community; cases were represented by p...

Air pollutants often have adverse effects on human health. This paper investigates and ranks a set of policy and technological interventions intended to reduce such health costs in the high population density areas of South Africa. It initially uses a simple benefit-cost rule, later extended to capture sectoral employment impacts. Although the focus of state air quality legislation is on indust...

Below I use research in theoretical biology to shed light on the nature and function of supernatural cognition, and suggest some promising new paths of psychological inquiry these new understandings open. By supernatural cognition I mean beliefs, emotions, and practices relative to supernatural beings and powers like Yahweh, The Amida Buddha, Shiva, Jesus Christ, Zeus, grace, mana, soul, num, a...

Part I of this Article discusses Supreme Court cases prior to 1981, in which the Court first expressed its hands-off approach to deciding questions of religious practice and belief. This Part suggests that in these decisions, as a result of a proper concern for religious autonomy, the Court already began the process of expanding the principle of judicial non-interference, at the cost of sacrifi...

The design and development of a smart monitoring and controlling system for household electrical appliances in real time has been reported in this paper. The system principally monitors electrical parameters of household appliances such as voltage and current and subsequently calculates the power consumed. The novelty of this system is the implementation of the controlling mechanism of applianc...

The HELIOS program is a series of five solar tracking missions with the goal to demonstrate the feasibility of solar tracking on a high altitude balloon platform while maintaining a low mission cost. For this purpose, a tracking system was developed that could be accurate, simple, and cost efficient. This paper documents the tracking system utilized by HELIOS IV both physically and algorithmica...

Divorce is the end of a marriage. break in relationship between husband and wife. Every married couple must have their ways to prevent divorce from happening. always based on quarrels This reason that dispute wife occurs because one parties wants divorce, therefore family not harmonious. Offspring who are present household very important, apart being successor heir, children also goal harmoniou...