This empirical study analyses the effects of institutional, economic, and socio-economic determinants on total entrepreneurial activity in contexts developed developing countries. It fills a gap literature, regarding lack studies about relationships among activity, corruption, commercial freedom, economic growth, innovativeness, inward foreign direct investment, unemployment, households, non-pr...

Nowadays, it is necessary to analyse the influence of various socio-economic factors on regional heterogeneity tobacco consumption in Russia, since there a lack econometric studies based data. The present study aims assess impact financial, economic and educational Russian regions. To this end, simultaneous quantile regression approach, resistant outliers, was applied separately estimate above ...

The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of ChamberlainMundlack correlated random effects probit models. Drawing...

This paper draws on four bodies of literature to consider the determinants of healthy eating for low-income Canadians: a) the social determinants of health; b) socio-economic gradients in diet; c) food security; and d) the sociology of food. Though there is a paucity of data for Canada, it is very likely that, as in other industrialized countries, there are socio-economic gradients in diet such...

This paper aims to investigate the main socio­economic determinants of female age at first marriage in Chuadanga dis­ trict, Bangladesh, over the year 2005, and attempts to find some explanations for the differences in the age at marriage among socio­ economic characteristics. The findings of the multiple classification analysis (MCA) suggest that among all the variables analyzed in...

Multilevel (or hierarchical) analysis is of particular interest to explanations of tuberculosis (TB) incidence and prevalence, as TB has long been considered a disease of socio-economic deprivation. Cantwell et al. published a seminal study in 1998 demonstrating an association of TB with crowding, poverty and low education in the USA, although it was entirely an ecological analysis rather than ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate socio-economic and demographic determinants of anemia among Indian children aged 6-59 months. METHODS Statistical analysis was performed on the cross-sectional weighted sample of 40,885 children from 2005 to 2006 National Family Health Survey by using multinomial logistic regression to assess the significance of some risk factors in different degrees of child anemia. Ane...

Attainment of 70 years life expectancy by 2020 is one of the millennium development goals in Nigeria. This study examined the socio-economic determinants of life expectancy in Nigeria using data from 1980-2011. Judging from the endogeneity feature of the variables, A VAR and VECM frameworks were employed. Socio-economic features were proxy by secondary school enrolment, government expenditure o...

BACKGROUND Research on determinants of Medical profession has established some constant factors with universal impact and appeal. However, the dramatic changes in the dynamics of medical profession and medical education over the past years have necessitated a revisiting of the established conclusions. The knowledge of impact of economic status on these determinants would pave way to greater int...