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low-income individuals as measured by their opportunities to participate in what is considered the "mainstream financial …). Financial education is framed as a tool to help low-income individuals move from the alternative financial sector to the … mainstream. To analyze the role that financial education does and can play in the lives of low-income individuals, this …
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groups that are likely to be constrained depends positively on current income. This is consistent with the presence of …
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. Based on the theory of time allocation, the wife's housework time was analyzed and the substitution and income effects were …The wife's housework time as a function of her income, wage, wage ratio, and husband's housework time, was empirically … tested. Expenditures for food away from home as a function of her income, wage, her housework time, and family size was …
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The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in...
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How consumers respond to changing retail formats is reflected in their patronage choice behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate retail type choice behavior across 10 retail types in order to identify any change in consumer patronage behavior over the past five years, and to assess...
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A dimension of well-being, economic security, was analyzed in this study taking into account household income and … economic emergency; specifically, loss of income. Measures of two different kinds of economic security, adjusted and … variables: household income and four household characteristics. Specifically, it was of interest to examine whether income and …
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The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting NSLP participation and price and assess their impacts. The dependent variables for this study were participation and price. Average Daily Participation (ADP) was used as a participation rate, and the following specific participation...
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It is widely recognized that the value of environmental assets such as biodiversity, unique locations and the atmosphere may be hard to quantify. In particular, option values, quasi-option values and non-use values have been the subject of extensive discussion. We propose here an evaluation of...
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Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant varietyprotections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adoptedPVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS)...
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This dissertation addresses a basic difficulty in accommodating other-regarding preferences within existing models of decision making. Decision makers with such preferences may violate the property of stochastic dominance that is shared by both expected utility and almost any model of...
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