in italy, several policy measures have been implemented in order to increase energy efficiencyand reduce carbon emissions especially concerning the household sector. however, in order to design andimplement these policy measures efficiently, it is necessary to get a better understanding of the factorsinfluencing household energy behavior. in this paper, by using disaggregated data from the 2009...

the present research measures the household budget of 623 families residing in tehran with the aim of finding out the quality of the family welfare. while at the macro level, social welfare as a new concept is the product of the industrial society, at the micro level, it is accessible through promotion of the household budget. the study employs both qualitative and quantitative research methods...

The collective approach to household behaviour models the household utility function as the weighted average of the utilities of the individual members of the household. These weights, which measure the relative bargaining power of males and females within the household, are generally regarded as fixed and exogenous. The paper extends the collective approach and estimates a model where the weig...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the Household Food Consumption and Anthropometric Survey, undertaken in Poland from September to November 2000. DESIGN A sub-sample of households participating in the countrywide, representative household budget survey (HBS) was selected to participate in the Household Food Consumption and Anthropometric Survey. Four thousand two hundred (4200) individuals ...

OBJECTIVE To derive estimates of age-gender specific food availability, based on data collected at household level. DESIGN Two alternative modelling approaches are described leading to linear and non-linear optimisation, respectively. The idea of penalised least squares is used for estimation of model parameters. The effect of household characteristics can be incorporated into both modelling ...

A HOUSEHOLD DAILY NON-MANDATORY ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION AND DURATION MODELING ACCOUNTING FOR PERSON LEVEL BUDGET CONSTRAINTS Ivana Vukovic Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Rajesh Paleti A key methodological and behavioral innovative component in recent Activity-Based Models (ABMs) used for transportation planning is the household-level non-mandatory activity participation component. W...

This work augments existing household bargaining literature by focusing on locally varied property rights norms in determining spouses’ relative threat points. While similar studies have used spouses' pre-marriage assets as an indicator of bargaining power, I hypothesize that the division of property in case of divorce might provide a more relevant indicator, given the legal predominance of var...

in recent years, medical and health care consumption has risen, making health risk an important determinant of household spending and welfare. we aimed to examine the determinants of medical and health care expenditure to help policy-makers in the improvement of china's health care system, benefiting the country, society and every household. this paper employs panel data from china's provinces ...