This paper revisits Saccone’s (2020) analysis of the impact economic freedom on decile income shares for a panel developed and developing nations during 1980-2014. Saccone found that higher levels corresponded with lower bottom 8 deciles only top 2 deciles. Instead shares, this focuses levels. We find per capita all 10 increases as increases.

On average, persons receiving Social Security benefits tend to have lower current incomes than do persons paying Social Security taxes. This article documents OASDI's income distributional patterns by dividing the 1992 Current Population Survey population into 10 income deciles and tabulating benefits received and taxes paid by each decile. The benefits and taxes, when compared with non-Social ...

To define a low-risk diet for breast cancer in Italy, a multicentric case-control study of 2569 incident cases of breast cancer and 2588 controls from Italy was analyzed. A logistic regression model was applied to the estimated intake of five macronutrients and used to compute a diet-related risk score (RS). The pattern of macronutrient and food group intake across RS deciles was defined. The m...

The Raichur district is considered as a drought prone area in Karnataka. study was carried out to compare and evaluate the performance of six indices namely Standardized precipitation index (SPI), evapotranspiration (SPEI), China Z (CZI), Deciles, Percent Normal (PN) Rainfall anamoly (RAI). A time series were compared evaluated using histogram analytical hierarchy process (AHP). showed that PN,...

may 21, 2011 vol xlvi no 21 EPW Economic & Political Weekly 80 deciles with the amount of subsidy received, i e, Rs 2.06 per kg. For scenario 4, just like scenario 2, we first calculated the transfer amount by multiplying the total grain that is to be distributed under the NAC proposal with the economic cost incurred by the government, and subtracted this figure from the revenues generated. We ...

We decompose the Lorenz curve and its associated concentration curve by population subgroups. To illustrate these decompositions, we examine changes in earnings inequality among West Germans, East Germans, and foreign guest workers during the recent German unification. We show that East German earnings have become less concentrated in the lower deciles of the overall German earnings distributio...

BACKGROUND Health professionals, policy-makers and researchers need to be able to explore potential associations between prevalence rates and quality of care with a range of possible determinants including socio-economic deprivation and morbidity levels to determine the impact of commissioning and service delivery. In the UK, data in England are only available nationally at practice postcode le...

INTRODUCTION Medical schools are in general over-represented by students from high socio-economic status backgrounds. The University of Western Australia Medical School has been progressively widening the participation of students from a broader spectrum of the community both through expanded selection criteria and quota-based approaches for students of rural, indigenous and other socio-educati...

This paper studies the relationship between mothers’ employment and children’s schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling is negative. Women in poorer households are more likely to work but, given the negative correlation, their additional income...

Abstract Aim Over 150,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) are diagnosed per year in the UK [1], with greatest incidence less deprived socioeconomic groups [2]. The association between social deprivation and melanoma staging has been reported [3], however is not as well considered Basal or Squamous Cell Carcinomas (BCCs/SCCs). Method A pilot review 200 NMSC excision biopsies completed a...