In the sixth millennium BC, inhabitants from settlements across the north Mesopotamian plains and foothills appropriated distinctive painted pottery and other elements considered characteristic of Halaf culture. Residents of the site of Tell Kurdu in the Amuq Valley, now in sout…
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The four chapters in this dissertation explore the factors that affect the livelihoods of rural households in Nigeria with an emphasis on understanding the role of the nonfarm economy. Although most rural households are involved in the farm sector, the nonfarm sector has grown s…
The main purpose of this dissertation was to determine whether income, education, gender, family size, and constraints like high cost of building materials, high house rents, etc. are the factors that contribute to the Enugu residents decision to dwell in slums of Agangwu, Ngele…
This dissertation is about the analysis of household survey data from Indonesia. The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) is mainly used to test theories about household behaviors. In particular, I focus on these issues with respect to savings and risk-sharing behaviors and their…
Malnutrition is a decisive factor that could detain individual and societal advancements. It may not only reduce individual well-being, but at macro level, could also be a burden for the national health expenditure and the labour productivity. Aside from the economic context, th…
Extensive research in recent decades has focused on analyzing the mechanisms by which household resources are allocated among family members. For development programs to be successful, they need to take into account the rules of household allocation and how policy and other inte…
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to analyse the consumption, saving and borrowing behaviour of agricultural households. Specifically, by using the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) as a theoretical framework, and secondary data sources, this thesis argues that consum…
Over the years, neighborhoods across the country have undergone transformation. There has always been a tendency to examine the superficial causes of transformations. Several studies in the literature focus on racial transformation as a key driver of neighborhood change. This st…
Previous studies about the effect of remittances emphasize the direct effects and provide little explanation about the role of such monies on household borrowing activities. This study investigates the effect of remittances on the borrowing activities of households in Pakistan. …
This dissertation examines the role of micro-credit on the liquidity constraints faced by poor landless and near-landless households in rural Bangladesh. The objective of the study is to examine whether collateral-free interest-bearing micro-loans from the Grameen Bank can help …
The dissertation investigates household organization for the inhabitants of southern Judah during the Iron Age II (late 8th century B.C.E.). It specifically attempts to broaden our understanding of the social unit which occupies the pillared dwellings so prevalent throughout the…
This research evaluates how people face uncertainty in their lives when they cannot purchase insurance in formal markets. It is concerned with how rural households in less developed countries (LDC) face risk by creating social capital via exchange relationships and how these exc…
This research uses quantitative and qualitative data collected from ten Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic sites in Central and Southwest Anatolia (Asikli Hoyuk, Catalhoyuk, Canhasan III, Canhasan I, Guvercinkayasi, Hoyucek, Badamagaci, Erbaba, Hacilar and Kuru9ay) to investigate …
The water supply and sanitation situation in the developing world is still very inadequate. In Africa, for example, more than 47 percent of urban households are without access to safe water. The condition is even worse in rural areas. This study reports a meta-analysis of more t…
The issue of income distribution and inequality lies in the heart of development literature. This study has examined the structure of household expenditure and income in Egypt between the late 1950s and the early 1990s. The data employed are sourced from the five household budge…
How do poor rural households in Bangladesh deal with bad weather, floods, and other idiosyncratic income shocks? Do existing social institutions help poor households smooth their consumption by mitigating these shocks? Does the existing rural social structure call for special po…
In this dissertation I analyze economic and social conditions in households and neighborhoods in Upper Mesopotamia, ca. third millennium B.C.E. Most investigations of domestic residences in the ancient Near East have focused on elite residences. In contrast, I analyze wealthy an…
The study is an attempt to model the complex energy consumption behavior in South Asia, where households choose from modern energy resources such as electricity and natural gas, and traditional sources such as wood and biomass. The study uses the Living Standards Measurement Stu…
This research examines the weak condition of pareto efficiency maintained by the unitary and collective models of the household. Farm production data collected from Senegalese households over a two-year period are used to test whether resources are allocated efficiently across m…