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Effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios

Creator:: Xiao, Jing-jian
Abstract:: The effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios over a three-year time period were investigated. Specifically, this study attempted to conceptually define mental accounts, to identify own-adjustment and cross-adjustment characteristics of these mental accounts, to explore influences of selected family characteristics on these mental accounts,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: behavioral features that are usually missing in economic analysis: self-control, mental accounting, and

Time used for household work : comparisons for farm, rural nonfarm, and urban women

Creator:: Meiners, Jane Ella
Abstract:: This study examined time spent in various activities by farm women. Emphasis was placed on household work time and how time is apportioned among various household work activities. Time use of farm women was compared to rural nonfarm women and urban women. Data were from An Interstate Comparison of Urban/Rural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: /maintenance of home, yard, car, or pet; care/construction of clothing; physical/nonphysical care of family

Management strategies and time use in food preparation in two-parent, two-child Utah families

Creator:: Steggell, Carmen Dobson
Abstract:: The management of the home has been a central component of Home Economics since the early 1900s. It is, however, an enigmatic behavior that has not yielded easily to research. Recognizing that meal provision and food consumption by families incorporate management processes and occur on a regular and frequent basis,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Arlene v HoVkoak The management of the home has been a central component of Home Economics

The household economy : examining the mediating roles of income diversification and home production on economic and subjective well-being of women in Malawi

Creator:: Chande-Binauli, Lucy S.
Abstract:: An integrated framework of Family Resource Management and Household Economic theory was utilized to develop a model of relationships between human capital, family characteristics and resources, number of income sources, hours spent in home production, total income and subjective well-being. This study utilized a sample of 129 women systematically selected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: income diversification and home production on economic and subjective well-being of women in Malawi AN

Children's housework in single-mother and single-father families

Creator:: Hall, Leslie Duke
Abstract:: Using data from the 1987-1988 National Survey of Families and Households, this study compared time children of single mothers (n = 717) and fathers (n = 78) spent on housework. Housework takes time and many parents combine it with employment and child rearing. Characteristics of families headed by single mothers...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Development of home economics education among the Tamils of Ceylon

Creator:: Savundranayagam, Mercia Violet Sybil Cloelia Indreni
Abstract:: This study attempted to analyze the educational problems of Tamil women, one of the communal groups in Ceylon, to trace in broad outline the development of their education from the earliest times to the present day, and to ascertain particularly the quality and importance of Home Economics Education in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cultural and economic demands of the age. The subject of Home Economics . Education was selected as a

The nature of home economics curriculum in secondary schools

Creator:: Baldwin, Edith E.
Abstract:: As with other areas of the curriculum home economics tends to respond to the objectives of powerful interest groups rather than to the work of recognized scholars and the ideals of democracy. The philosophical orientation of this study is derived from the work of Jurgen Habermas, a dominant figure in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: The nature of home economics curriculum in secondary

Testing for critical thinking skills in selected courses

Creator:: Park, Jean S. (Jean Salvevold)
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to assess the gain in critical thinking skills with a consideration of grade point averages during a semester in two high school home economics courses, and one language arts course which was used as a control group. The study was conducted by administering the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thinking skills with a consideration of grade point averages during a semester in two high school home

Beyond heat or eat : street-level bureaucracy in rural Oregon energy relief

Creator:: Maguire, Jennifer J.
Abstract:: Rising energy costs coupled with the diminishing incomes associated with rural economic restructuring leave an increasing proportion of rural households faced with the heat or eat dilemma--where families must choose between meeting one basic need over another, such as putting food on the table or keeping the heat on. Effective...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Rising energy costs coupled with the diminishing incomes associated with rural economic restructuring

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Effects of selected family characteristics on interrelated components of household asset portfolios

Time used for household work : comparisons for farm, rural nonfarm, and urban women

Management strategies and time use in food preparation in two-parent, two-child Utah families

The household economy : examining the mediating roles of income diversification and home production on economic and subjective well-being of women in Malawi

Children's housework in single-mother and single-father families

Development of home economics education among the Tamils of Ceylon

The nature of home economics curriculum in secondary schools

Testing for critical thinking skills in selected courses

Beyond heat or eat : street-level bureaucracy in rural Oregon energy relief

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