Increased development results in the loss of forest, farm, range, and other open space lands that contribute to the quality of life of U.S. residents. I describe an economic rationale for growing public support for preserving local open space, based the growing scarcity of open space lands. I test the rationale empirically by correlating the prevalence of open space referenda in U.S. counties t...

The relative income hypothesis interprets statistical associations between income inequality and average health status at the population level, as evidence that income inequality has a deleterious psychosocial effect on individual health. An alternative explanation is that these, population-level associations, are statistical artefacts of curvilinear, individual-level relationships between inco...

purpose: dehyaries (rural mayer) a public institution with legal personality independent non-governmental that some public services and forensic services in rural areas do.the main objective of the research was to study the sources of local income in the province has dehyaries and factors affecting local income and percentage of the total annual income of the two which is. methodology: this stu...

The absolute income hypothesis—that holding other factors constant, the higher an individual’s income the better is their health—is supported by a considerable body of evidence. 2 3 However, according to the more recent relative income hypothesis, an individual’s health is also affected by the distribution of income within society. Someone with a given income would have worse health if he or sh...

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 ...