Climate change and air conditioning adoption: the role of remittances

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7840 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Filippo Pavanello ◽

Teresa Randazzo

Keyword(s):

Important Implication ◽

Air Conditioning ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Household Data ◽

Cooling Devices ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Large Flow ◽

At Home

<p>Do remittances improve how households adapt to global warming? We explore this question exploiting a nationally-representative household data from Mexico - a country that experiences a large flow of remittances. Mexican households respond to excess heat by purchasing air conditioning and remittances can be used to adopt and use cooling devices that contribute to maintaining thermal comfort at home. Our results show that recipient households have a higher probability to adopt air conditioning at home with important implication on electricity consumption. The effect is even larger for those households living in high-temperature areas showing an important role of remittances in the climate adaptation process.</p>

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Enhancing the role of remittances through social capital: Evidence from Indonesian household data

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal ◽

10.1177/0117196820920401 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 30-54

Author(s):

Rulyusa Pratikto ◽

Sylvia Yazid ◽

Elisabeth Dewi

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Family Members ◽

Household Data ◽

Future Income ◽

The Impact ◽

Female Migrant ◽

At Home

The main purpose of this study is to determine whether remittance-receiving households in Indonesia have truly experienced a measurable increase in their welfare. It focuses on how social capital may enhance the efforts of Indonesia’s female migrant workers to improve their and their family’s welfare at home. Our findings confirm that social capital enhances the impact of remittances by increasing the welfare of the migrant workers and their immediate family members. Remittance-receiving households with strong and wide-ranging social capital tend to use the extra income from remittances more for investment. In turn, this generates future income, which boosts the impacts of their remittances on their overall welfare.

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THE EFFECT OF CIRCULATING FAN AND NATURAL VENTILATION ON THE THERMAL COMFORT PERFORMANCE IN A BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST SULAWESI

DINAMIKA : Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik Mesin ◽

10.33772/djitm.v5i2.75 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Aditya Rachman ◽

Aspin Aspin ◽

Siti Belinda

Keyword(s):

Air Conditioning ◽

Natural Ventilation ◽

Cooling System ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Energy Utilization ◽

Energy Price ◽

Building Model ◽

Cooling Devices ◽

Alternative Approaches

The unbalance on the supply and demand on the energy has an impact on the escalating energy price and potentially impedes the development. One of the power demands comes from the energy utilization in the building sector, in which the cooling system is among them. The application of the air conditioning based on the refrigerator system is obviously consuming much energy in the building. Thus reducing the role of this power consumed cooling system is so imperative. To apply the circulating fan or to employ the natural ventilation are among the alternative approaches to make a building cooler, without much consuming energy. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect the circulating fan and the natural ventilation, on the temperature and the humidity in a building in Southeast Sulawesi, a region with its high daily solar radiation. It conducts an experiment on a building model incorporated with the ventilation and the circulating fan. The result shows that by incorporating these alternative cooling devices, the temperatures in the building can be lower than that of a closed building (no fan and no ventilation). The magnitude in the decreasing on the temperature for the building with circulating fan is higher than that of the ventilation. Another result on the investigation shows that the relative humidity in the building with the circulating fan or the ventilation is relatively higher than that of the closed building.

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CLOUD BASED INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CONNECTED OBJECTS

Journal of ISMAC - June 2019 ◽

10.36548/jismac.2019.2.004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 01 (02) ◽

pp. 31-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Duraipandian M. ◽

Vinothkanna R.

Keyword(s):

Energy Consumption ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Smart Home ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Considerable Improvement ◽

The Internet ◽

The Internet Of Things ◽

At Home

The paper proposing the cloud based internet of things for the smart connected objects, concentrates on developing a smart home utilizing the internet of things, by providing the embedded labeling for all the tangible things at home and enabling them to be connected through the internet. The smart home proposed in the paper concentrates on the steps in reducing the electricity consumption of the appliances at the home by converting them into the smart connected objects using the cloud based internet of things and also concentrates on protecting the house from the theft and the robbery. The proposed smart home by turning the ordinary tangible objects into the smart connected objects shows considerable improvement in the energy consumption and the security provision.

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Studying Globalization at Home

10.1093/oso/9780199964727.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sunil Bhatia

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Cultural Narratives ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Qualitative Approaches ◽

Interpretive Methods ◽

Significant Interest ◽

At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

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The Role of Place of Delivery in Preventing Neonatal and Infant Mortality Rate in India

Geographies ◽

10.3390/geographies1010004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 47-62

Author(s):

Ujjwal Das ◽

Barkha Chaplot ◽

Hazi Mohammad Azamathulla

Keyword(s):

Mortality Rate ◽

Infant Mortality ◽

Neonatal Mortality ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Infant Mortality Rate ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Public And Private ◽

Place Of Delivery ◽

At Home

Skilled birth attendance and institutional delivery have been advocated for reducing maternal, neonatal mortality and infant mortality (NMR and IMR). This paper examines the role of place of delivery with respect to neo-natal and infant mortality in India using four rounds of the Indian National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015–2016. The place of birth has been categorized as “at home” or “public and private institution.” The role of place of delivery on neo-natal and infant mortality was examined by using multivariate hazard regression models adjusted for clus-tering and relevant maternal, socio-economic, pregnancy and new-born characteristics. There were 141,028 deliveries recorded in public institutions and 54,338 in private institutions. The esti-mated neonatal mortality rate in public and private institutions during this period was 27 and 26 per 1000 live births respectively. The study shows that when the mother delivers child at home, the chances of neonatal mortality risks are higher than the mortality among children born at the health facility centers. Regression analysis also indicates that a professionally qualified provider′s antenatal treatment and assistance greatly decreases the risks of neonatal mortality. The results of the study illustrate the importance of the provision of institutional facilities and proper pregnancy in the prevention of neonatal and infant deaths. To improve the quality of care during and imme-diately after delivery in health facilities, particularly in public hospitals and in rural areas, accel-erated strengthening is required.

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Changing the Composition of Beginning Teachers: The Role of State Alternative Certification Policies

Educational Policy ◽

10.1177/08959048211015612 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089590482110156

Author(s):

Christopher Redding

Keyword(s):

Beginning Teachers ◽

Alternative Certification ◽

New Teachers ◽

State Level ◽

Schools And Staffing Survey ◽

Selective Colleges ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Alternate Routes ◽

The Relationship

Drawing on nationally representative data from six cohorts of beginning teachers from the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, this study applies a difference-in-differences research design to examine the relationship between changes to state-level alternative certification policies and the characteristics of new teachers. The introduction of alternate routes into teaching is associated with an increase in the fraction of new teachers of color in a state and the new teachers who graduated from selective colleges. No evidence was found of a relationship with the relative share of male teachers or teachers of in-demand subjects.

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The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up

Social Psychological and Personality Science ◽

10.1177/1948550621999622 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194855062199962

Author(s):

Jennifer S. Trueblood ◽

Abigail B. Sussman ◽

Daniel O’Leary

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Risk Preferences ◽

Herd Immunity ◽

Disease Spread ◽

Short Term ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Flu Vaccine ◽

Nationally Representative

Development of an effective COVID-19 vaccine is widely considered as one of the best paths to ending the current health crisis. While the ability to distribute a vaccine in the short-term remains uncertain, the availability of a vaccine alone will not be sufficient to stop disease spread. Instead, policy makers will need to overcome the additional hurdle of rapid widespread adoption. In a large-scale nationally representative survey ( N = 34,200), the current work identifies monetary risk preferences as a correlate of take-up of an anticipated COVID-19 vaccine. A complementary experiment ( N = 1,003) leverages this insight to create effective messaging encouraging vaccine take-up. Individual differences in risk preferences moderate responses to messaging that provides benchmarks for vaccine efficacy (by comparing it to the flu vaccine), while messaging that describes pro-social benefits of vaccination (specifically herd immunity) speeds vaccine take-up irrespective of risk preferences. Findings suggest that policy makers should consider risk preferences when targeting vaccine-related communications.

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