Objectives: The paper presents the results of an ecological-economic approach to identifying community-level factors that influence the physical growth of young children.Design: A cross-sectional design was used to obtain both theanthropometry and the ecological-economic data.Setting: The sites...

Migration to tea plantations in Assam in the 19th century used indentured contracts. These contracts differed by conditions of harshness. Migration under the Special Act gained notoriety by giving tea planter the right of private arrest. Using a new set of migration by types of contract, the...

Objectives: The paper presents the results of an ecological-economic approach to identifying community-level factors that influence the physical growth of young children. Design: A cross-sectional design was used to obtain both the anthropometry and the ecological-economic data. Setting: The...

Accounting is currently a very dynamic field at international level. Accounting information or its derivatives comprise an important segment of the information conveyed in the economic environment. Therefore, accounting is considered by some authors as the most important information source of a...

Economic reality is constituted by economic objects such as goods, commodities, money, value, price, and exchange that, together, give rise to the complex entity known as the market. Each of these categories is governed by exact laws that provide the conditions for settling objectively whether...

Applying the lifetime income approach the paper provides estimates for Russia's stock of human capital. The results show that using an annual discount rate of 4 per cent and assuming annual labor productivity growth of 5,2 per cent, the market value of Russia's human capital stock in 2010 was...

A swelling stream of literature employs age-heaping as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re-examine this connection in light of evidence drawn from nineteenth century Italy: census data, death records, and direct, qualitative evidence on age-awareness and numeracy....