in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …

, our research group from Western Kentucky University spent three and a half weeks in a small rural area of Kenya, Africa …. This area called Kasigau was situated at the base of Mount Kasigau in eastern Kenya. During our time there, we surveyed the …

between male and female entrepreneurs demand for credit, credit approval ratio, and credit performance. We fi nd that female … entrepreneurs who start a business are less likely to ask for a loan. Of the female entrepreneurs requesting a credit, the …

gender discrimination in the pricing of life insurance and annuities, namely, that individuals should bear their own ….Using a simple example, I show here that gender-based pricing results in radically different outcomes for male and female … consumers if one focuses on income rather than present value. Gender-based pricing means that a man must set aside more from his …

study of lighting use by micro-enterprises in two small towns in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. The work included a survey …

that fertility has increased in some countries--Kenya and Cameroon; has remained almost stable in Benin, Ivory Coast and …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …

This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a … not incorrect.Price of seedlings (negative effect), availability of timber species (positive effect), gender of the …

With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …

the High Potential Maize Zone of Kenya. The study employed normalized restricted translog profit function to estimate …