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Logic Model Framework for Employability and Skills Development in Vulnerable Youth: evidence from pilot intervention and quasi-experimental research

Gupta, Pallavi; Datta, Ambarish; Kothe, Satyanarayan - 2021

-experimental research is designed to assess the differences in outcomes for experiment and comparison groups and establish effectiveness of …. Results: Significant difference was found between experiment group before intervention and after intervention. Wilcoxon Signed …-rank Test showed significant difference in pre- and post-intervention for the experiment group, z (65) = -7.026, p < 0.05; this …

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The Impact of Home Grown School Feeding Program(HGSFP) on Child Education and Nutrition in Nigeria.

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2023

As a lower income country with extreme poverty status, Nigeria is characterized by very large informal sector. Consequently, National Social investment programme (NSIP) of the Nigerian government were created to enshrine the value and vision for graduating Nigerian citizens from poverty circles...

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An Impact Evaluation of Digital Cash Transfers Scheme on Income Poverty in Nigeria

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2023

Just as the African economy is confronting its sharpest reversal in a generation; Nigeria is currently faced with perhaps the most challenging economic downturn (amidst fuel subsidy removal) in its history. Thus, social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers to vulnerable...

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Fair farming: Preferences for fair labor certification using four elicitation methods

Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Vassilopoulos, Achilleas; Lusk, … - 2015

Vossler and Evans (2009) and Vossler and Watson (2013). We also test predictions of reference dependent theory by testing …

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Consumer preferences for fair labour certification

Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Vassilopoulos, Achilleas; Lusk, … - 2015

elicitation and predictions of reference dependent theory. With our most conservative estimates, we find that consumers are …

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Does Consumer Behaviour on Meat Consumption Increase Obesity? - Empirical Evidence from European Countries

Mohammad Monirul, Hasan - 2013

The study shows the association between consumer behavior on meat consumption and obesity of individuals in the European countries. Consumer behavior in terms of meat consumption and life-style has significant impact on obesity which is defined by Body Mass Index (BMI) calculated as kilogram per...

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What shapes eHealth literacy of an individual?

Xesfingi, Sofia; Vozikis, Athanasios - 2014

This paper studies the ability of an individual in searching, analyzing and processing information from the Internet in order to address or solve health related issues, the so-called eHealth literacy and the factors that shape it. Understanding what influences eHealth in a country is...

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Cattle farmers’ perceptions of risk and risk management strategies

Bishu, Kinfe; O'Reilly, Seamus; Lahiff, Edward; … - 2016

use survey data from a sample of 356 farmers based on multistage random sampling. Factor analysis is employed to classify …

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Before the Lunch Line: Effectiveness of Behavioral Economic Interventions for Pre-Commitment on Elementary School Children’s Food Choices

Ozturk, Orgul; Frongillo, Edward; Blake, Christine; … - 2019

In this study, we intervened in elementary schools on lunch entrée selection using some of the behavioral economic methods shown to be effective in earlier food choice studies. Unlike many earlier behavioral interventions, which were mostly done in controlled environments and smaller café type...

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Disability Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market – A Field Experiment on Blind Tenants

Fumarco, Luca - 2015

In this study, I show that with the appropriate experimental strategy, a correspondence test can be adapted to investigate disability discrimination in the rental housing market. I focus on discrimination against blind tenants assisted by guide dogs in Italy and obtain very robust results. The...

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