Undertaking non-agrarian income-generating activities to reduce overreliance on agriculture, production failures, and income fluctuations is a household-amenable, self-insurance mechanism, which provides employment opportunities capital investment. This article examines the determinants of participation in non-farm effect household income. Heckman two-step procedure was used analyze three-wave ...

  Background: Although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as Iran). This study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in Iranian female headed families.   Methods : This cross-sectional study was ...

background: although most studies on female-headed families focus on women's access to social support, the associations between social capital and quality of life in these families are unclear in many societies (such as iran). this study aimed to determine the associations between social capital and quality of life in iranian female headed families.   methods : this cross-sectional study was pe...

Abstract Background As part of a larger food security project under Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Program (CASCAPE), 928 farms in the Ethiopian Highlands were surveyed between 2012 and 2017. The aim was to determine whether Net Farm Income (NFI) is relevant indicator that drives at household farm level, its drivers across six study regions Ethiopia (i.e., Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Haramaya, Bahir ...

The electricity supply in South Africa is characterized by load-shedding. This study analyzed the determinants of multidimensional energy poverty index (MEPI) Africa. data, which were taken from 2019–2021 General Household Survey (GHS), using Tobit regression. results showed that between 2019 and 2021, use clean for cooking declined 85.97% to 85.68%, respectively, whereas water heating 87.24% 2...

A new species of the dicroglossid frog genus Limnonectes is described from Ubon Ratchathani Province, northeastern Thailand. Limnonectes lauhachindai sp. nov. differs from its congeners by having males with a low-profiled, U-shaped caruncle with free posterior margin that completely occupies, but does not extend beyond, the interobital region. The new species is most closely related to L. gylde...

BACKGROUND Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour in high-income countries, but this association is unclear in low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS We investigated the association of SEP with attempted suicide in a cross-sectional survey of 165 233 Sri Lankans. SEP data were collected at the household (assets, social standing (...

The literature suggests men and women may have different preferences. This paper exploits a social experiment in which women in treatment households were given a large public cash transfer (PROGRESA). In an effort to disentangle the effect of additional income in the household from the effect of changing the distribution of income within the household, the impact of PROGRESA income on savings a...