Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Comparing Maternal Health Indicators between Teenagers and Older Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from DHS
(Population Studies and Research Institute, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Most literature supports the notion that teenage childbearing is generally associated with higher risk of adverse maternal and newborn health outcomes. There is however continued debate on whether this association is ... -
Family Background, Education and Earnings in Kenya
(GUPEADepartment of Economics, University of Nairobi,, 2002)This paper uses data collected in 2000 to first estimate OLS and ordered probit models to measure correlation between family background and workers' education. Then, human capital earnings functions are estimated to examine ... -
Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons in Kenya: Analysis of Maternal and Child Well - being
(School of Economics, University of Nairobi, 2010)This paper utilizes Demographic and Health Survey data to generate multidimensional poverty profiles for women and children in Kenya during the period 1993 to 2003.We measure wellbeing in two dimensions: assets and health ... -
Real Wages and Returns to Human Capital in Kenya Manufacturing firms
(GUPEA, 2002)This paper studies how real wages and wage returns to human capital in Kenya manufacturing firms changed, using cross-section data sets from a survey conducted in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2000. A quantile regression technique ... -
Education of children with specific learning difficulties
(Nairobi: KISEDepartment of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 2002)One category of learners that perplexes educationists and the parents alike, and one whose needs the education system in Kenya still does not address adequately is specific learning difficulties also known as learning ... -
Overview of learning disabilities
(Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 2007)Terms and concepts abound in the field of special needs education to the extent that one condition may be known by different names and have different definitions depending on the orientation of the user/writer. Such a ... -
Does firm size really affect earnings?
(2002)In this paper we investigate the implications of labour and capital market imperfections for the relationship between firm size and earnings. To establish that such a question is of inte rest we need to show that the ... -
Environmental psychology
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An empirical analysis of interest rate spread in Kenya
(2001)Financial reform predicts achievement of efficiency in the intermediation process and reduced transaction costs, which is proxied by a narrowing wedge between the lending and deposit rates. Kenya’s experience shows a ... -
Factor intensity in Kenya's industrial sector: an input ration analysis
(Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 1974)Three approaches - value added approach, capital consumption approach, capital cost approach - are utilised to assess the relative factor intensities in small and large firms in Kenya. We conclude that small scale firms ... -
Reaching out to Children with Special Educational Needs in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe
(Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 1999) -
Special needs education in Kenya and Zimbabwe
(Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Creating a barrier free environment for children with physical disabilities
(Department of Psychology, University of Nairobi, 1995) -
Emerging psychosocial needs for people living with HIV/AIDS undergoing private commercial anti-retroviral treatment in some selected Hospitals in Nairobi - Kenya
(Department of Communication Skills, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
Legal, ethical and Gender implications of implementation of programmes on the Reduction of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS
(Department of Communication Skills, University of Nairobi, 1998) -
The role of psychosocial support to children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS: A WOFAK Experience
(Department of Communication Skills, University of Nairobi, 1997) -
Integrating AIDS Education in young women
(Department of Communication Skills, University of Nairobi, 1994)
