BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Adjusted for inflation, household income has been relatively flat since the mid-1990s, but the inflation rate of employer-sponsored health insurance has been greater than both household income growth and general inflation for 50 years. We estimated the effect on average family income if health insurance inflation matched the general inflation rate since 1996, and those...

This study examines the impact of political decentralization on an essential public service provided in almost all countries: childhood immunization. The relationship is examined empirically using a time-series data set of 140 low- and middle-income countries from 1980 to 1997. The study finds that decentralization has different effects in low- and middle-income countries. In the low-income gro...

OBJECTIVE We investigated associations between changes in national food energy supply and in average population body weight. METHODS We collected data from 24 high-, 27 middle- and 18 low-income countries on the average measured body weight from global databases, national health and nutrition survey reports and peer-reviewed papers. Changes in average body weight were derived from study pairs...

OBJECTIVES To see if obesity, deaths from diabetes, and daily calorie intake are associated with income inequality among developed countries. DESIGN Ecological study of 21 developed countries.Countries: Countries were eligible for inclusion if they were among the top 50 countries with the highest gross national income per capita by purchasing power parity in 2002, had a population over 3 mill...

• Net income was Ps. 1.903 billion (including monetary gains of Ps. 1.039 billion), or US$245 million, during the third quarter of 1997. Net income for the third quarter of 1996 was Ps. 1.308 billion (including monetary gains of Ps. 1.843 billion), or US$158 million. Net income per ADR (ratio 2:1) was Ps. 3.08 (US$0.40) based on an average of 1,234,179,807 shares outstanding during the quarter ...

The article is devoted to the development of tools for evaluating level and dynamics Ukrainian households' well-being, by considering availability key groups goods households with different levels per capita income. results should contribute taking into account a greater number essential aspects lifestyle economic capabilities assessing achieved its dynamics, differences components population g...

Despite becoming one of China’s fastest expanding and most valuable forest land uses, bamboo’s role in livelihoods and rural development is poorly understood. Detailed quantitative data from 240 households were used to study the contribution of bamboo to household income and rural livelihoods in 12 remote and mountainous villages in southern China. Bamboo was a ubiquitous and highly utilised re...

The family Quotient: a Tax Structure Consistent with the Relative Lorenz Criterion by Patrick Moyes and Alain Trannoy When households are identical in all characteristics other than income, an average rate of taxation increasing with primary income guarantees that disposable income is more evenly distributed than pretax income. This paper studies whether it is possible to obtain a similar findi...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to quantify changes in the affordability of sugar-sweetened beverages, a product implicated as a contributor to rising rates of obesity worldwide, as a function of product price and personal income. METHODS We used international survey data in a retrospective analysis of 40 high-income and 42 low-income and middle-income countries from 1990 to 2016...

researching on the economic gains of marriage is one of the fields in family economics studies. accordingly, the aim of this paper is to investigate marriage gains as couples' income increases while the main hypothesis is based on cross-productivity effect. the resulted evidence from families of tehran suggests that the cross-productivity effect exists for both of spouses whereas this effe...