We contribute to the literature on the effectiveness of aid and to energy poverty literature by providing the first study that examines the effect of aid on energy poverty. Using eight rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and sub-national aid data for Senegal, we find that aid...

In recent years, gambling harm has been considered a significant public health concern due to its increasing socioeconomic costs. Although the adverse effects of gambling have attracted research interest, evidence of its effect on financial stress remains largely anecdotal. This study...

This study examines the link between employment precarity and energy poverty from racialand ethnic perspectives. Data are extracted from a five-year panel survey from South Africa—a country noted for its high rate of racial, ethnic and gender segregation of occupations. Bothemployment...

Chapter 1: Wellbeing Among Older People: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: Empowering the Independence of Older People with Everyday Technologies -- Chapter 3: Investigating the Relationship between Housing Insecurity and Wellbeing -- Chapter 4: Social Support and Wellbeing Among Older Australians...

Part I. Overview of Development Goals -- Chapter 1: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): What are they? How were they devised? Were they appropriate for developing countries? -- Part II. What Influenced MDGs? -- Chapter 2: Ethnic diversity and MDGs -- Chapter 3: Social capital and MDGs --...

This study analyses the existence of the J-curve phenomenon in Australia using quarterly data over the period 1970-2016. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration and error correction methodology are used to examine the short-run and long-run impact of real exchange rate on...

Since the late 1970s, the received wisdom has been that government size (measured as the ratio of total government expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP) or government consumption to GDP) is detrimental to economic growth. We conduct a hierarchical meta‐regression analysis of 799...

We examine the link between ethnic diversity and food insecurity. Using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey, we measure food insecurity using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and measure ethnic diversity at the district level using information from the Ghana Population and Housing...

This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...

We examine whether having a parent who smoked during one's childhood or adolescence increases the probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that people who had a parent who smoked when they were young are 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points more likely to be in energy poverty later...