Content of review 1, reviewed on September 25, 2021
1) The paper investigates an interesting issue. While the paper tries to validate and develop a second-order model for the economic welfare scale to attain a comprehensive and precise assessment of the household economic welfare effect, the justifications for the need for such a model are weak. The authors have failed to explain and critically discussed why do we need this model? How previous models failed in the assessment of household economic welfare? What are the gaps of previous models? How the current model fills up these gaps? All these issues should be critically discussed in the problem statement.
2) The literature review is not critically discussed. The concept of Economic Welfare is not adequately discussed. The factors that influence economic welfare were omitted. The authors have argued that conflict and violence are significant factors that determine households' economic welfare. However,
Employment prospects, Job satisfaction, Affordable Housing, Education, Life expectancy and quality of life, Happiness levels, Environment, Leisure time and other psychological and social factors are all significantly determining households' economic welfare. I believe that defining and measuring the economic welfare based on food consumption and income loss is misleading. Some recent works on economic welfare need to be added. below are some of the recent works on Economic welfare
Rocha Ojeda, E. (2021). Social Economic Welfare Effects of Large-Scale Energy Storage and Relation with Variable Renewable Energy Sources Shares (Master's thesis).
Bağçe, S., Yılmaz, E., & Kılıç, İ. E. (2021). Ethnic identity and economic welfare. Economic Systems, 100888.
Cook, D., & Davíðsdóttir, B. (2021). An appraisal of interlinkages between macro-economic indicators of economic well-being and the sustainable development goals. Ecological Economics, 184, 106996.
Martorano, B., Metzger, L., & Sanfilippo, M. (2020). Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. World Development, 129, 104909.
Chakrabarty, M., & Mukherjee, S. (2021). Financial Inclusion and Household Welfare: An Entropy-Based Consumption Diversification Approach. The European Journal of Development Research, 1-36.
Koh, H. L., Solarin, S. A., Yuen, Y. Y., Ramasamy, S., & Goh, G. G. (2021). The Impact of Microfinance Services on Socio-Economic Welfare of Urban Vulnerable Households in Malaysia. International Journal of Business and Society, 22(2), 696-712.
Korir, L., Rizov, M., & Ruto, E. (2020). Food security in Kenya: Insights from a household food demand model. Economic Modelling, 92, 99-108.
Coyle, D., & Nakamura, L. (2021). Time Use and Household-Centric Measurement of Welfare in the Digital Economy.
3) Explain why this study employs multi-stage probabilistic sampling
4) Explain how the measures of economic welfare at the microlevel developed by Brück et al. (2013) are relevant to the current study? How do Brück et al. (2013) measures of economic welfare fit the scope of the current study?.
5) Explain how the questionnaire is developed? adopted and/or adapted?
6) Explain how the sample size is calculated?
7) I couldn't find any significant contribution? How does the developed model advance the current state of knowledge?
8) The research implications do not significantly contribute and/or advance the current state of knowledge
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Content of review 2, reviewed on November 28, 2021
I am satisfied with the revision. Good job. congratulations
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References
Kurfi, B. B., Abdul, H. R., Hussin, B. A. 2022. Validating second-order model for economic welfare scale: evidence from Nigeria. International Journal of Social Economics.