Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine(1) whether population mortality or child mortality better forecasts fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a...

Master of Agribusiness

Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women, which have encouraged women to obtain more education and facilitated the rise in women’s wages relative to men’s. The private opportunity costs of children have therefore...

This paper examines the effects of a public-health intervention program on sex differentials in health and mortality during childhood. Among the different health-service packages offered as part of the experimental design, those including nutritional services seem to have been more successful in...

This paper examines an individual’s entrepreneurial adoption decisions to use mobile banking for both business and social reasons. A conceptual model based on social cognitive theory is developed to explain an individual’s propensity to adopt mobile banking. The theoretical framework...

The impact of social and cultural factors on the adoption of technology still requires much research. To investigate it more fully, we examine the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of mobile banking in Ghana. Through a survey of 271 people in Ghana, it has been found that social and...

The main purpose of this research was to examine the application of recent investmentanalytics when making capital investment decisions in next‐generation service‐orientedtechnology architectures in the cellular telecommunications industry. Secondaryobjectives were to conduct risk analysis...