Understanding Social Accounting Based on Evidence

A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CIRCULAR FLOW OF IRANIAN ECONOMY BASED ON SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX 1996

Social accounting matrix and the effects of economic reform on health price index and household expenditures: Evidence from Iran

Background: Socioeconomic indicators are the main factors that affect health outcome. Health price index (HPI) and households living costs (HLC) are affected by economic reform. This study aimed at examining the effect of subsidy targeting plan (STP) on HPI and HLC.    Methods: The social accounting matrix was used to study the direct and indirect effects of STP. We chose 11 health r...

People accounting: Social category-based choice

This paper presents people accounting—a hypothesis that describes how a simple numerical imbalance in representation along nominal social category lines can aVect people’s choice of candidates in highly competitive situations (e.g., awards, jobs, etc.). For example, two scholarship Wnalists from California and New York may be equally qualiWed, but the award-winning chance for the California can...

Understanding social interactions: Evidence from the classroom

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom There is a large literature on social interactions and still little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior that is so commonly observed in the data. In this paper we present a model in which agents are allowed to interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testab...

Understanding the 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Based on Available Evidence - A Review Study

Since December 2019, a new coronavirus, called the 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), triggers pneumonia outbreak from Wuhan (Huanan seafood market) across China, which now poses major health threats to public health. The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) epidemic by 2019-nCoV is spreading worldwide, and by March 1, 2020, 67 countries, including Iran, have been affected. According to worldw...