Money Income and Spending of Population

Spending money to save money.

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

Comparing the Income Elasticity of Health Spending in Middle-Income and High-Income Countries: The Role of Financial Protection

Background As middle-income countries become more affluent, economically sophisticated and productive, health expenditure patterns are likely to change. Other socio-demographic and political changes that accompany rapid economic growth are also likely to influence health spending and financial protection.   Methods This study investigates the relationship between growth on per-capita healthcare...

Saving money by spending more.

Money, Credit and Spending: Drawing Causal Inferences

It is widely accepted that loans cause deposits. Hitherto, though, the empirical evidence has come from bivariate causality tests which we know can give rise to invalid inference if the two variables are causally influenced by some third, omitted, variable. This is a real danger where loans and deposits are concerned since there is a substantial body of evidence that both are linked to GDP, or ...

Spending Time and Money within the Household

We consider theoretically and empirically the allocation of time and money within the household. The novelty of our empirical work is that we have a survey which provides information on both time use and the allocation of some goods within the household, for the same households. Thus we can consider whether a partner who enjoys more leisure also receives more consumption, which looks like the o...