OBJECTIVE To investigate whether exposure to fast-food outlets and supermarkets is socio-economically patterned in the city of Copenhagen. DESIGN The study was based on a cross-sectional multivariate approach to examine the association between the number of fast-food outlets and supermarkets and neighbourhood-level socio-economic indicators. Food business addresses were obtained from commerci...

This study introduces dynamic features into the random-utility-based multiregional input-output (RUBMRIO) model. The RUBMRIO model predicts interzonal trade and travel patterns, as well as business and household location choices, using consumption and production process data. It equilibrates production and trade, labor markets and transportation networks simultaneously. Multinomial logit models...

Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009 Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children’s well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases in family work hours main...

• mandatory expansion of Medicaid programs to cover individuals in households with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,484 for a single person and $29,726 for a family of four in 2010) • a requirement that states develop and run health insurance exchanges through which individuals and small businesses can purchase health care coverage • a provision that large and mid-siz...

Harried and formerly married women account for 90 percent of all women entering the retiredworker rolls, reflecting the &ing employment rate of marr2ed women. Since World War II the majorit?! of married women claim early retirement benefits, often citing volundary reasons for leaving their jobs. They account for a large proportion of beneficiarZe8 with min4mum benefits but include many whose be...

Over the last 40 years, the proportion of women in dentistry has been rising steadily, raising questions about the effects of this feminization on the profession. A review of the literature, although limited, highlights potentially important areas related to gender, including impact on work hours, practice models, professional incomes, the dentist–patient relationship, clinical philosophies, sp...

This paper analyzes the welfare costs of business cycles when workers face uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk that has a cyclical component. In accordance with the previous literature, this paper decomposes individual labor income risk into an aggregate and an idiosyncratic component and assumes that these two components are stochastically independent. In contrast to the previous liter...

System Dynamic Simulating Modeling is one of the most appropriate and successful scientific dynamics modeling methods of the complex, non linear, natural, technical and organizational systems. The methodology of this method, together with use of digital computer, showed its efficiency in practice as very suitable means for solving the problems of management, of behavior, of sensibility, of flex...

We examine the effects of the revised Basel II rules on bank managers’ discretionary behavior. Specifically, we ascertain whether bank managers engage in more income smoothing and whether they defer loan loss provisioning as a result of increased regulatory pressure from anticipated changes to the Basel Accord. We predict that the revised rules will increase regulatory pressure on the corporate...