A consequence of the 2005 Government White Paper on Education was the apparent continuation of the marketisation of education in England. As a result, it would appear that the need for schools to be able to market themselves within this culture was becoming more and more important. One of the...

Maternal and infant mortality is a global health issue with a significant social and economic impact. Each year, over half a million women worldwide die due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, four million infants die in the first 28 days of life, and eight million infants die...

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and...

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate(IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantiletreatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highlycorrelated with other observable and unobservable...

The aim of the research is to examine the relationship between each of four factors affecting life expectancy and life expectancy and thereby provide primary data for government policy. First, the research chose four factors among many factors affecting life expectancy. The four factors chosen...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2350.

Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...

A cikk a népesedéssel kapcsolatos problémák közül néhányat alaposabban is körüljár. A tanulmány bemutatja a különféle, egymással összebékíthetetlennek látszó „zöld” elképzelések mozgatórugóit és a törésvonalat: a modernitást és a modernitás tagadását; s a...