Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in U.S. by estimating effect child gender on fathers’ subjective well-being. A wide range well-being measures, including happiness, pain, sadness, stress, tiredness, meaningfulness, is analyzed, fixed-effects models are adopted to control for ...

C linical trials typically report the mean effect of interventions with an indication of the variability or 95% confidence interval signifying whether an intervention leads to statistically significant effects. A statistical difference does not necessarily inform clinicians or policymakers as to whether patients will perceive these effects as a benefit or whether the effect is of any clinical r...

this paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

the effect of teaching the learning and studying strategies on unsuccessful college students' development in urmia university of medical sciences     feizipour h [1] , zeinali a [2] *     received: 16 dec , 2012 accepted: 20 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : educational failure is an important problem of most of the educational centers that needs urgent strategies. this study ...

background: the metabolic syndrome and periodontitis coincide with systemic inflammation and glucose tolerance disorder, which indicate the common pathophysiologic pathway of these diseases. the main goal of this study was to determine the effects of the metabolic syndrome on the periodontal indices of hemodialysis (hd) patient. materials and methods: in this descriptive‑analytical study, 75 pe...