This article examines the determinants of remittance transfers, specifically focusing on the impact of crimes on remittances. Using the 2003 Quality of Life Survey of Colombia, we find that both domestic and international transfers are negatively affected by crime. That is, because crime may have an adverse effect on household assets and the return to investments in the home community, migrants...

Objectives: To know the family income of diabetic patients and the places where they acquire/purchase the syringes, and to analyze the cost of treating the disease at home and the consequences of such costs. Methods: Descriptive, analytical, cross-section study, which interviewed 199 patients cared for at a large pediatric school hospital in São Paulo in 2004. Results: The predominant family in...

Relational governance works well in relatively small communities, which may be too small to allow perfect competition. This paper explores this idea using two models. In a spatial model with monopolistic competition, relational governance constrains the size of firms and can lead to inefficiently excessive entry. In a model where high quality is self-enforcing because its providers get a suffic...

The effects of home-based HIV counseling and testing on HIV/AIDS stigma among individuals and community leaders in western Kenya: Evidence from a clusterrandomized trial Corinne Low, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Winnie Rono, Evan Plous, Angeli Kirk, Samson Ndege, Markus Goldstein & Harsha Thirumurthy a Department of Economics, Columbia University, NY, USA b School of International and Public Affairs, ...

This paper considers the implications of increasing land supply constraints in the United States on urban demand. First, because shifts in demand are now capitalized more into the price of land, house prices in some metropolitan areas have grown increasingly unaffordable to typical households. This might have an effect on the fundamental character of such cities. Second, the effect of home owne...

This study was designed to ascertain the challenges of improvising instructional materials by Home Economics teachers at the Upper Basic education level in Nigeria, and as a result identify strategies for enhancing improvisation. The study used survey research design based on two research questions. The sample was four hundred and thirty-one Home Economics teachers in Upper Basic schools in Ana...

In December 1998, 15 percent of unemployed jobseekers, and 7 percent of employed persons used the internet to look for a new job. Conditioning on internet access from home, internet job search rates rise to 50 percent of unemployed jobseekers and 15 percent of the employed. Only 9 percent of black, and 7 percent of Hispanic unemployed jobseekers conduct on-line job search, compared to 16 percen...

background: the study of economics is important in iranian stroke patients, because it is one of the costly diseases that could be linked to disability, mortality, and morbidity. the aim of this preliminary study was to investigate total treatment costs of hospitalized patients with stroke. methods: a cross‑sectional study of 24 patients conducted to isfahan neurosciences research centre was ca...

with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...