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Complementing evidence that childhood poverty negatively affects adult outcomes, the impact of poverty on well-being in late childhood is investigated empirically to help inform the targeting of policy. Child well-being and household poverty are conceptualised as multi-dimensional phenomena and structural equation modelling used to ascertain the relative importance of determinants of child well...

OBJECTIVE Health insurance provides financial support for health care expenditures. There are two types of health insurance: compulsory and voluntary. Voluntary health insurance can be divided into two categories: self-employed and supplementary. In this study, the main factors that affect the demand for self-employed health insurance in Iran were determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cro...

The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the asymptotic variance of the index is also provided. The implementation of the index is illustrated with an...

A study was carried out to assess the nutritional status of under-five child population within cassava consuming community in Nambale of western Kenya. A structured questionnaire was used to collect socio economic data, 24-hour food re-call and anthropometric measurements. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Descriptive statistics were used while Pearson’s Chi Squa...

ganglion cysts commonly occur around the shoulder, mostly in the spinoglenoid and suprascapular notches. we report a very rare case of intra articular ganglion cyst of the long head of the biceps tendon that originated from the bicipital groove as a rare cause of shoulder pain.

Abstract In this article, we examine the joint influence of land access and gender household head on food insecurity by employing a logit model using data from 2015/2016 Nigerian General Household Survey. Our results show that female-headed households (FHHs) are more insecure than male-headed households. However, with 1-acre increase in their to land, FHHs 16 percent less likely be insecure. Th...

Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The respondent’s perception of how much cash is needed varies profoundly and positively by income in the county where ...

Gary Becker's \Rotten Kid Theorem" asserts that if all family members receive gifts of money income from a benevolent household member, then even if the household head does not precommit to an incentive plan for family members, it will be in the interest of sel sh family members to maximize total family income. We show by examples that the Rotten Kid theorem is not true without assuming transfe...