Household and district-level determinants of school dropout are studied for 130,000 children in 363 districts of 30 developing countries using multi-level discrete-time event history analysis. School dropout is influenced by socio-economic and demographic household characteristics and characteristics of the available educational facilities, like number of teachers and distance to school. Other ...

BACKGROUND Food and nutrition security in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are threatened by political instability and chronic poverty. The Jenga Jamaa II project, implemented between 2011 and 2016 in South Kivu Province, aimed to improve household food security and child nutritional status using various intervention strategies, including farmer field school (FFS) programs. OBJECTIVE ...

Egerton University with a mandate to undertake empirical research and analysis on contemporary economic and agricultural policy issues in Kenya. The institute is widely recognized as a centre of excellence in policy analysis on topical agricultural and food security issues of the day, and in its wide dissemination of findings to government and other key stakeholders with a view to influencing p...

Sustainable production requires balanced resource use and it is the management decisions at a household level that determine nutrient fluxes and the economic viability of enterprises. Traditionally, the agricultural systems of the mid-hills of Nepal have relied on the close integration of forestry, livestock husbandry and crop production but increasing population and other social changes are st...

At the household level, livestock plays a critical economic and social role in pastoralists and at the household level, livestock plays a critical economic and social role in pastoralists and smallholder farm households. The objectives of this study were to analyze factors affecting participation in cattle fattening and its impacts on household income in Fadis district of Eastern Hararghe. Both...

OBJECTIVE The availability of suicide methods affects the risk of suicide attempts. This study examined the patterns of substances ingested by suicide attempters (SAs) and the characteristics of SAs using psychotropic overdoses. METHODS Data for 384 of the 462 eligible SAs who used self-poisoning were analyzed. Demographic variables, clinical characteristics, and factors related to the suicid...

We use OLS and logistic regression to investigate variation in husband and wife perspectives on the division of authority over agriculture-related decisions within households in rural Tanzania. Using original data from husbands and wives (interviewed separately) in 1,851 Tanzanian households, the analysis examines differences in the wife's authority over 13 household and farming decisions. The ...

Since Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (IAHS) were launched by the FAO to protect sustainable traditional agricultural systems around world, their conservation has become a new difficult issue under context of urbanization. Farmers in IAHS sites giving up small-scale farming due low economic benefit and high labor intensity are considered as main cause hindering effective these heritages...

This paper uses the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to analyze individuals' choices on part-time jobs and their impacts on the hourly wages. Our study is a comparative study between Great Britain and the Netherlands. In contrast to most previous researches on part-time employment, we make a distinction between short part-time and long part-time jobs. The results show that overall wome...

The development of a vibrant private sector has been one of the key failures of the transitional period in Russia. This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model of individual labor supply behavior under uncertainty, and estimates this model using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the years 1994 – 1996 & 1998. As hypothesized, a decrease in private sector earnings ...