Essays about: "Status consumption"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 176 essays containing the words Status consumption.
-
21. Sustainability in Property Asset Management : An overview of perceptions, important aspects and implementation of sustainability in Swedish commercial real estate companies
University essay from KTH/Fastighetsföretagande och finansiella systemAbstract : Due to the challenges posed by climate change, the notion of sustainability is gaining traction in the real estate industry. This study highlights property asset managers' conceptual understanding of sustainability, and explores whether the level of implementation of sustainability is actually achieving sustainability objectives through the management of commercial real estate. READ MORE
-
22. How social behaviour in juvenile Brown trout (Salmo trutta) are regulated by social hierarchies and exposure to the benzodiazepine oxazepam
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and ManagementAbstract : Improved global healthcare rises the production and consumption of human pharmaceuticals. Insufficient wastewater treatment systems and unregulated downstream impacts causes pharmaceutical contamination of surface waters with trace residues in countries covering all continents. READ MORE
-
23. The Marriage the Merrier: Examining the Role of Family Labor Supply in Consumption Inequality
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Using data from the Panel Study of Income dynamics between 2009 and 2019, I first document that the disconnect between consumption and earnings inequality holds for married households but not single households. Married households seem to behave consistently with the Permanent Income Hypothesis, smoothing out their consumption based on their expected lifetime incomes. READ MORE
-
24. Assessment of calculation methods for Primary Energy Factors : Case Study of Swedish electricity mix
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Energisystem och byggnadsteknikAbstract : The use of the concept of "primary energy" is present in all types of regulations at both European and national level, so that all aspects related to the reduction of energy use and energy efficiency measures speak in terms of primary energy and Primary Energy Factors, necessary for its conversion. The existing consensus on the use of the term is not such in terms of the methodology for calculating the Primary Energy Factors to be adopted, which is the reason for the search for a methodology that acquires the status of global and standard. READ MORE
-
25. Targeting the Poor Secondary Students for Stipend: Identifying the Gap between Policy and Implementation
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Well-designed and efficient poverty-based targeting methods are necessary for effectively identifying the poor households in poverty eradicating programs. This study investigates the ex-post implementation process and performance of two common targeting approaches - Proxy Means Test (PMT) and Community-Based Targeting (CBT)- to target the poor beneficiaries in a conditional cash transfer program in Bangladesh. READ MORE