Recently there is a revived interest in national accounts for pre-industrial cultures, especially in the late-medieval period. There is one conclusion that can already be drawn from this new stream of research: per capita income turns out to have been higher than what had been assumed before. This revision of income estimates for the late medieval Eurasia has serious implications for research o...

OBJECTIVE To describe children's consumption of processed foods and its relationship with per capita family income based on a household survey. METHODS Food consumption was studied in a statistical sample of 718 children living in the city of São Paulo in the period 1995-1996. A 24-hour dietary recall was used. Data regarding the association of children's consumption of 24 processed foods and...

Governance is a way of exercising power in economic and social resource management of a country. Good governance criteria have different weights and relation with regard to the conditions and information of any country. This study is a descriptive survey and has been carried out to calculate the coefficients and weights of each indicator of good governance in Mena countries and identification o...

OBJECTIVE Analyze the use of appetite suppressants in Brazil in 2009, according to the characteristics of users, healthcare system, and other drugs. METHODS Pharmaconeconometric study of cross-sectional data to analyze the relationship between the use of appetite suppressants (mg/per capita) and the independent variables selected (gender, race/color, age, schooling, income, health insurance c...

We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the pohtical economy literature that higher hicome per capita causes democracy. Existing studies estabUsh a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not tjqaically control for factors that simultaneously affect both variables. We show that controlling for such factors by including country fixed effects removes the ...