OBJECTIVE To explore trends in access to dental care among middle-income Canadians. METHODS A secondary data analysis of six Canadian surveys that collected information on dental insurance coverage, cost-barriers to dental care, and out-of-pocket expenditures for dental care was conducted for select years from 1978 to 2009. Descriptive analyses were used to outline and compare trends among mi...

Income Pooling and Household Division of Labor: Evidence from Danish Couples If income pooling indicates primary earners’ willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for household production. In li...

Despite an emerging literature, there is still sparse and mixed evidence on the wider societal benefits of Minimum Wage policies, including their effects on mental health. Furthermore, causal evidence on the relationship between earnings and mental health is limited. We focus on low-wage earners, who are at higher risk of psychological distress, and exploit the quasi-experiment provided by the ...

BACKGROUND There is a scarcity of data in rural health centers in Nigeria regarding the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and HIV infection. We investigated this relationship using indicators of SES. METHODS An analytical case-control study was conducted in the HIV clinic of a rural tertiary health center. Data collection included demographic variables, educational attainment, e...

OBJECTIVE To describe the evolution of cigarettes' real price and affordability during the last decade in Argentina. METHODS To analyze the real price of cigarettes, the weighted average monthly price of a pack of 20 cigarettes was divided by the consumer price index (CPI) from 2004 to 2014. The relative income price (RIP) was evaluated for the same period, defining RIP as the percentage of t...

The objective of the present study is to examine the socio-economic determinants of alcohol consumption among adult males in Malaysia. A nationally representative data consisting of 13,756 respondents are used. A logistic regression model is applied to examine the factors affecting the likelihood of consuming alcohol. The results show that younger individuals, higher income earners, ethnic Chin...

Abstract This article provides a comparative analysis of three central policies to regulate low wages: statutory minimum wages, state support for collective bargaining and topping up wages with public transfers (in-work benefits). We map the variation these across 33 OECD countries analyze incidence low-wage employment they are associated with. find approaches regulating wages. In first, ‘wage ...

Although research is available on group differences for overall well-being, little research has explored group differences for domain-specific well-being. Therefore, we examined differences in overall and domain-specific well-being across several demographic variables: gender, income, marital status, age, ethnicity, education level, employment status, occupation, and housing tenure. We analyzed...