Child poverty is persistent throughout the world; even in many wealthy countries. Among Western industrialised countries, the United States has high child poverty rates (about 20% in 2009) as well as high income inequality. In recent years, two US policies to address child poverty have received support: early intervention to improve the health and development of young children, and employment-b...

In this paper we use unique data to examine how college students from low income families for expectations about academic ability and to examine the role that learning about ability and a variety of other factors play in the in the college drop-out decision.

This paper examines the relationship between family structure and child poverty in Canada over the 1981-1997 period. While recognising the many methodological and conceptual difficulties encountered in efforts to document child poverty over time, two alternate indicators are used, Statistics Canada’s official low income cut-offs, and an alternate indicator of "deep poverty”. Using the Survey of...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of elderly Chinese people in Hong Kong. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING 18 elderly health centers in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS This study was based on a cohort aged 65 years or above who were enrolled in the Elderly Health Services from 1998 to 2005 in ...

Poverty caused by disasters poses a great challenge to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation. Livelihood resilience is key factor for farmers resist risks and get rid poverty. Therefore, this study used China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) database. Firstly, we examined impact natural on vulnerability farmers. Secondly, taking livelihood its decomposition dimensions as threshold vari...

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

Poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the United States of America. In the history of the United States, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. This paper intends to investigate poverty among Hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. Within this per...

Understanding energy poverty is fundamental to any efforts alleviate it. This paper, using the latest (2016) Sri Lankan Household Income and Expenditure survey data, examines incidence, intensity, inequality, determinants of in Lanka, by constructing Multidimensional Energy Poverty Index (MEPI). The MEPI calculated a set seven key indicators representing multiple dimensions assigning weights Pr...

In order to expand our knowledge of how health inequalities are generated, a broader range of possible mechanisms has to be studied. Two mechanisms of potential importance here are childhood conditions and sense of coherence. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical findings in these two research fields, a conceptual model of the relationships between childhood conditions, sense of cohere...