Between 2000 and 2006 house prices rose more than fifty percent in real terms. Over that same period households’ mortgage and home equity debt relative to income shot up. Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that households accessed the equity in their homes to fund current consumption. Little if any theoretical work, however, has examined the relationship between household consumption beha...

AIM To investigate the influence of psychological and social factors on health risk behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol and psychoactive drug consumption among adolescents and to determine the prevalence of consuming various psychoactive substances. METHODS The survey was conducted among adolescents in the Primorsko-goranska County in Croatia in 2003. The prevalence of smokers, alcohol, and p...

in recent years, medical and health care consumption has risen, making health risk an important determinant of household spending and welfare. we aimed to examine the determinants of medical and health care expenditure to help policy-makers in the improvement of china's health care system, benefiting the country, society and every household. this paper employs panel data from china's provinces ...

The crowd out effects of the government deficit is tested by adding it to consumption and investment models which control extensively for other factors. Effects are calculated for recession and non-recession periods, and compared to models with average crowd out, and models without crowd out. Test results indicate 1) deficits crowd out private consumption and investment, are statistically signi...

This study aims to find out how the budget is managed finance Bandar Klippa village spending in 2020 and 2021, whether there a deficit or surplus this management. research uses descriptive qualitative method by conducting interviews, documentation observation. Based on results of study, you will get revenue IDR 1,924,528,154 with expenses 1,946,550,800, experience 22,022,646 while 2021 2,039,14...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

Evaluative judgments are known to depend heavily on context. For example, the same car that would have been experienced as having brisk acceleration in 1950 would seem sluggish to most drivers today. Similarly, a house of given size is more likely to be viewed as adequate the larger it is relative to other houses in the same local environment. And an effective interview suit is one that compare...