Investigating the determinants of positive mental health, as opposed to focusing on mental illness, is a new research direction with important implications for population health promotion. Past research suggests that mental health develops in early childhood and that social factors including highest household educational attainment may play an important role. The current study examined the asso...

This paper offers a synthesis of agricultural household modeling, its evolution and uses; presents a general yet simple agricultural household model, estimated with Mexican village data and programmed using General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software; and uses this model to explore household-level impacts of agricultural policy changes on production and incomes under alternative rural-mar...

Tüm gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerde hane halklarının davranışları 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında 21. başında büyük bir değişiklik geçirdi. Özellikle çevresel psikolojik faktörlerin etkisi tüketim kararları üzerinde etkili olmaya başladı. Bunun sonucunda halkı tüketime karar verirken, harcamasına yönelik tercihin varlığı, makroekonomik değişken olarak halkının borç stokunu önemli haline get...

BACKGROUND The main goal of this study is to examine the distributions of illness conditions and resulting medical expenditures and their associated factors. To achieve this goal, an in-house survey was conducted in August of 2012 in rural Beijing, the capital city of China. RESULTS The survey was conducted in Nanjianchang and Beijianchang, which are two villages 20 KM away from Miyun, a sate...

With new nationwide longitudinal survey data now available from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we study the level, distribution, and composition of household wealth in contemporary China. We find that the wealth Gini coefficient of China was 0.73 in 2012. The richest 1 percent owned more than one-third of the total national household wealth, while the poorest 25 percent owned less than ...

This paper studies the relationship between social capital and household welfare. Social capital is taken to mean, very simply, 'durable social networks'. The relationship is investigated using survey work conducted in two villages in eastern Uganda. The surveys gathered information on the quality and extent of people’s participation in local organizations, as well as household welfare. To orga...