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The Impact of Financial Literacy on Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare in Ghana
No full textThis thesis was informed by using three existing datasets. The main dataset (RAFiP) was collected as part of a randomised controlled trial conducted in Ghana in 2015 and 2016. Baseline data was collected on 1,441 respondents while endline data was collected on 1,415 respondents. This data covered sections on demographic information, financial literacy, household consumption, asset accumulation, financial inclusion, health expenditure and others. The other two datasets are the sixth and seventh rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) that was collected by the Ghana Statistical Service. GLSS6, which was collected in 2012/13, sampled 16,772 households while GLSS7 (collected in 2016/17) had a sample size of 14,009 households. The GLSS surveys cover sections on demography, housing conditions, employment, education, water and sanitation, health, access to financial institutions and insurance services, remittance and household assets, poverty, disability, migration, agriculture, non-farm activities and governance, among others.The datasets used for this thesis consist of:<br><br> 1. Rural Agriculture Finance Programme (RAFiP), Financial Literacy Project dataset. Access to the dataset can be requested by contacting:<br> James Atta Peprah (PhD) <br> Department of Economics<br> University of Cape Coast<br> Cape Coast, Ghana<br> [email protected]<br><br> 2. Ghana - Ghana Living Standards Survey 6 (With a Labour Force Module) 2012-2013, Round Six (Datasets used: sec10A.dta, sec10B.dta, sec12a.dta, SEC1.dta, POV_GH_2013.dta, GHA_2013_H.dta, GHA_2013_INCOME.dta). Access to these datasets is available via The Ghana Statistical Service website: http://www2.statsghana.gov.gh/nada/index.php/catalog/72<br><br> 3. Ghana - Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 7) 2017 (Datasets used: g7sec1_5.dta, povgh_2017.dta, g7sec12b.dta, g7sec3a.dta, 15_GHA_2017_I.dta, g7sec11_12screening.dta, g7sec12a.dta) Access to these datasets is available via The Ghana Statistical Service website: http://www2.statsghana.gov.gh/nada/index.php/catalog/9
Financial Inclusion and Rural Energy Poverty Reduction in Latin America
No full textThis study investigates the relationship between financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction, proxied with rural access to electricity and, clean fuels and technologies for cooking, utilising data from 14 Latin American countries from 2004–2020. Evidence from dynamic ordinary least squares, fully modified ordinary least squares, and canonical correlation regression techniques documented that financial inclusion significantly decreases rural energy poverty in Latin America. However, the impact of financial inclusion on rural energy poverty reduction differs considerably among individual Latin American countries. We recommend that policies promoting financial inclusion would reduce rural energy poverty
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Energy poverty and mental distress in South Africa: Assessing linkages and potential pathways
No full textDespite the increasing attention on energy poverty due to its health implications, the South African story is yet to be told, while pathways of influence have received little empirical investigation in the extant literature. This study examines how energy poverty affects mental distress in post-apartheid South Africa and explores gender and locational heterogeneities in outcomes as well as potential pathways. We use five years of longitudinal data extracted from the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS). We employ the Lewbel instrumental variable method to resolve endogeneity and apply causal mediation analysis to identify potential channels of effect. The findings suggest that energy poverty is associated with an increase in mental distress. This outcome is consistent across different estimation methods and conceptualisations of energy poverty. The deteriorating effect of energy poverty on mental distress is more pronounced among females and rural residents. We further establish that experiences of persistent cough and chest pains/tightness serve as potential pathways in the link between energy poverty and mental distress. We encourage the South African government to increase budgetary allocations to the free basic electricity policy and provide connection subsidies to poor households, which have the potential to alleviate energy poverty and reduce mental distress as a result
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