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On the characterization and economic evaluation of income mobility as a process of distributional change

Allanson, Paul - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012) 4, pp. 505-528

The paper employs a rank-dependent formulation of the social welfare function with time-separable utilities to evaluate the economic consequences of the mobility process underlying the transformation of the income distribution over time. The resultant class of measures can be decomposed either...

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A Comparative Analysis of the Validity of US State- and County-Level Social Capital Measures and Their Associations with Population Health

Lee, Chul-Joo; Kim, Daniel - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 1, pp. 307-326

The goals of this study were to validate a number of available collective social capital measures at the US state and county levels, and to examine the relative extent to which these social capital measures are associated with population health outcomes. Measures of social capital at the US...

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From bodies to lives, complainers to consumers: Measuring menstrual excess

Hasson, Katie Ann - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 10, pp. 1729-1736

menorrhagia, or excessive bleeding, from normal menstruation. I focus specifically on measurement as a key process in diagnosing … menstrual pathology, arguing that measurement practices construct women's bodies as appropriate objects of medical attention in …

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A critique of emergency management policy: recommendations to reduce disaster vulnerability

McEntire, David A. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 3 (2008) 5/6, pp. 302-312

The problems currently evident in emergency management give ample reason to reflect upon the direction of this profession in the USA. This paper evaluates the founding principles upon which this profession was based in the 1980s. It then highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the...

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Rethinking gender and mental health: A critical analysis of three propositions

Hill, Terrence D.; Needham, Belinda L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 92 (2013) C, pp. 83-91

. There is no theory to suggest that affective and behavioral disorders should be treated as comparable indicators of misery … behavior. We conclude with seven recommendations to advance theory and research and several general reflections on the …

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