Northern watershed of Kouhrang River with the area of 68437 hectares is located in northwestern Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiary province within 49ْ 54ً to 50ْ 9ً E longitude and 32ْ 83ً to 32ْ 36ً N latitude.Making a balance and equilibrium between the number of ranchers, the rangeland production potential and appropriate flock size in each utilization unit is a necessary task. It is a matter of import...

The effect of equivalence scale on poverty line has been considered as a predetermined parameter in all previous studies about the estimation of poverty lines in Iran. As household’s members can benefit from economies of scale in consumption, the cost of reaching to a given level of welfare does not increase one to one in household scale. So the effect of household scale on poverty line as a pr...

Background and Aim: Due to the high level of out-of-pocket payments for health expenditures and the importance of household health expenditure management, this study aimed to investigate socioeconomic factors affecting Iranian urban households’ health expenditures. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic and applied study was conducted cross-sectionally at national level with microeco...

A variety of studies have examined the determining factors of household consumption, demonstrating that the most prominent factors are income expectations, socio-economic characteristics, and borrowing constraints of the household. However, the effect of spontaneous unemployment on household consumption is very important from welfare perspective: because a proper social security system can elim...