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Student Study Choices in the Principles of Economics: A Case Study of Computer Usage
Grimes, Paul W.; Sanderson, Patricia L.; Ching, Geok H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
Principles of Economics students at Mississippi State University were provided the opportunity to use computer assisted … instruction (CAI) as a supplemental study activity. Students were free to choose the extent of their computer work. Throughout the …, workbook, class notes, and study groups. The surveys indicated that only a minority of the students actively pursued CAI …
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Effects of gender on credit card usage among university students in Turkey.
Çankaya, Serkan; Ucal, Meltem; O'Neil, Mary - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In recent years, much has been written about credit card usage among university students. Despite a vast number of … studies, little has been written about credit card usage among university students in developing countries. This research … surveyed university students in Turkey in an attempt to understand their uses of credit cards. In particular, we examined the …
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Students' dependence on smart phone and its effect on purchase behavior
Arif, Imtiaz; Aslam, Wajeeha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This study explores effect of social need, social influence and convenience on university student’s dependence on smart … significantly affect students’ dependence on smart phone. A significant relation also existed between student’s dependence on smart … customer needs. Further it provides an exclusive viewpoint of students’ dependence on smart phone and its effect on purchase …
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Climate Risks, Seasonal Food Insecurity and Consumption Coping Strategies: Evidences from a Micro-level Study from Northern Bangladesh
Ahamad, Mazbahul Golam; Khondker, Rezai Karim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents the food insecurity status and coping strategies among the households in the Northern Bangladesh. A three stage stratified random sampling followed by a structured questionnaire was employed to collect primary data from nine different primary sampling units. Locally adjusted...
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FOOD Insecurity and Stochastic Aspects of Poverty
Anderson, Jock; Roumasset, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
Most works on food security have a macroeconomic orientation, whereas most discussions of famine are rather microeconomic. The intention here is to seek a more unified approach to the economic issues in food insecurity among low-income rural households.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070464
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Child Malnutrition and Mortality in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Cross-Country Analysis
Gabriele, Alberto; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper we propose and test an interpretative framework on the social and economic determinants of child malnutrition and child mortality, two key human development indicators. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 illustrates the main economic and social factors causing child...
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A Competing Risk Model for Health and Food Insecurity in the West Bank
Cavatorta, Elisa; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explores the interactions between the risk of food insecurity and the decision to health insure in the Palestinian Territories. The risk of adverse health conditions is insurable; the risk of food insecurity is a background risk and no market insurance exists. The vulnerability to food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674275
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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? A Generalised Bayesian Instrumental Variable Approach in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity
Salois, Matthew; Balcombe, Kelvin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The impact of covariates on obesity in the US is investigated, with particular attention given to the role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The potential endogeneity of participation in SNAP is considered as a potential problem in investigating its causal influence on obesity...
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Dietary quality and tree cover in Africa
Ickowitz, Amy; Powell, Bronwen; Salim, Mohammad; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The relationship between forests and human nutrition is not yet well understood. A better understanding of this relationship is vital at a time when the majority of new land for agriculture is being cleared from forests. We use Demographic Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258726
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The impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being: evidence from Bangladesh
Sonia, Akter; Syed Abul, Basher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259538