This study investigates whether personal taxes are related to asset valuations. The effective tax rate of investment income fluctuated considerably since federal income taxes were introduced. The main result of the paper demonstrates that there is an economically and statistically significant relationship between asset valuations and personal tax rates. Stock valuations tend to be higher when t...

BACKGROUND Differential access to healthy foods may contribute to racial and economic health disparities. The availability of healthy foods has rarely been directly measured in a systematic fashion. This study examines the associations among the availability of healthy foods and racial and income neighborhood composition. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2006 to determine diff...

The role of economic uncertainty on macroeconomic fluctuations has been studied extensively in the empirical literature; however, its distributional effects have received little attention. This paper attempts to fill this gap by investigating whether affects income, wage, and consumption inequality United Kingdom. Our findings suggest that measures fall significantly a shock. Households middle ...

This study attempts to investigate the impact of the working certification programs on the income of the coffee farms operated by the local smallholders at Dakha District, Kontum, Vietnam. Followed by the comparisons of the socio-demographic and economic characteristics between certified and non-certified farmers, the study adopts the Binary Probit model and linear regression model were applied...

This research is on the effective factors influencing on the participation of women and girls in development of rural areas in Farsan Villages. The sample size is chosen through 370 ones in four villages populated more than 1000 households families. The results show that the increased level of education influences on women's and girl's participation in development. There is a significant relat...

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Conforming to the Easterlin paradox, higher income always correlates with higher happiness, except in one case: whether national income growth yields higher well-being is ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the dietary changes needed to achieve nutritional adequacy across income levels at constant energy and diet cost. MATERIALS AND METHODS Individual diet modelling was used to design iso-caloric, nutritionally adequate optimised diets for each observed diet in a sample of adult normo-reporters aged ≥20 years (n = 1,719) from the Individual and National Dietary Survey (INCA2...

BACKGROUND Income-related inequalities in health and in health services use pose a disturbing and challenging issue in health systems, which are based on social health insurance such as Israel. OBJECTIVE To explore income-related inequalities in health and in health services use in Israel in 2009-2010. METHODS We used the Central Bureau of Statistics file, which linked information on 7,175 ...