Households with children 5–11 had more difficulties paying for school food and depended more on free meals compared to those with children 12–17. 3.7 Food benefits: SNAP and WIC Based on respondents’ job insecurity, we assessed the reliance on the SNAP and/or the Special Supplemental ...
Although the causality between poor housing and diminished mental health is under debate, a UK study has shown decreased Housing Benefits resulted in higher depressive symptoms for people living within poverty (Reeves et al., 2016). These results indicate that deprived living conditions can lead to...
(see Fig.5), implying a two-stage development. The inequality of water security first increases then decreases as the benefits of the first stage development gradually reach most households. The inequality of water security increases again when the second stage of development arrives and improves ...
When furniture became too worn out to use, it wasn’t thrown away—it was dismantled for firewood or to make small repairs around the house. Scrap wood was used for everything from patching up homes to building new structures, such as sheds, chicken coops, or storage boxes. Today, as l...
Because an individual bears the full cost of her conservation effort but shares the benefits (savings on the utility bill) with the rest of the household, conservation is below the household’s Pareto optimal level. Two features of household utilities lead to non-cooperative decision-making in ...
Each of these actions went along with individually tailored estimations on the potential CO2e-savings, financial costs and savings as well as generic information on health co-benefits for each specific household. These mitigation actions were the basis for the simulation game, described under Method ...
Moreover, we highlight systematic differences in the impacts of household consumption on residents according to their income level and location. These findings point to targeted opportunities for pollution abatement, such as direct emissions from solid fuels burned by rural households, but more ...
More importantly, household SAR studies can also yield estimates of vaccine effectiveness (VE), that is, the association between vaccination and susceptibility to infection, infectiousness given infection, and the total direct and indirect benefits associated with vaccinated individuals in vaccinated ...
Again, this is consistent with FG students being less inclined to trade off higher earnings for non-pecuniary benefits. 5.2 Labor markets place limited value on advantages gained through test-score transmission It is also possible that SG parents exaggerate the value of screening test scores that ...
and safety. The prevalent belief that latrine use is good for human health can be contrasted with the uncertain actual health benefits of sanitation change in Ethiopia [62,63,66,67]. It means that there is a relatively good public awareness about the biological plausibility of toilet adoption....