We model dwell times for trains subject to a possibly dense timetable based on rich data set containing both railway operations variables and passenger flows variables, which is rare in the literature. Another distinguishing feature of our modeling consists building single statistical actual at all stations contexts, not just constrained situations like late arrivals or some minimum time. These...

The study of socio-economic inequalities from a cross-national perspective has been hampered by the lack of adequate common indices of socioeconomic status that can be used in a self-report survey instrument. This paper examines the construction and the properties of global social indexes in general, and of the Family Affluence Scale (henceforth FAS) in particular. The paper proposes a new stra...

There are differences across Europe in elements of climate citizenship, including concern, perceived responsibility, and willingness to support take action. This paper examines how individual-level perceptions correspond a country's contribution change its ability develop policies. Data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (23 countries, n = 44,387) was used explore national-level factors (a...

Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas. By Pierre Charbonnier. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2021. 327p. 28.95 paper. - Volume 20 Issue 4

Our collective impact on the environment results from a combination of population, affluence and technology. Human 2.6bn in 1950, is predicted to reach 10.9bn by 2100. So much we know. ...

BACKGROUND This study of adolescent Canadians examines two groups who are anomalous in their health experiences: (1) those with perceived low affluence yet who perceive themselves to have excellent general health status; (2) those of perceived high affluence but who are reporting poor health status. Our hope was to explore the role of social supports in explaining such anomalies. We hypothesize...

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and type 1 diabetes have an environmental aetiology and common epidemiological features. Incidence rates and national characteristics of both conditions were investigated in 40 countries worldwide. There was a significant positive correlation between diseases. Markers of wealth and affluence were significantly associated with high incidence.

This paper reports the recent progress on mud volcanism data accumulation in the case of the Gulf of Cadiz area. The discovery of giant mud volcanoes, deep coral reefs, and gas hydrates in 1999, from the Guadalquivir Diapiric Ridge to the Larache Moroccan margin, launched a dynamic expansion of new projects (GeNesis, MoundForce, HERMES) and international oceanographic campaigns (R/V Sonne, Mari...

Is affluence a good thing? The book The Challenge of Affluence by Avner Offer (2006) argues that economic prosperity weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a pessimistic view, we show that psychological distress has been rising through time in modern Great Britain. Taking over-eating as an example, our data reveal that half the British population view themselves a...

Long before the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), which shows pollution at first increasing and then decreasing as income increases (see Figure 1), became enshrined in standard economic principles texts (e.g., Frank and Bernanke 2005), a very different view was set out by Ehrlich and Holden (1971). Much of the science and policy community still subscribes to their famous IPAT equation (I = PAT...