Showing 1 - 10 of 14,990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711722
implications of a given year’s mortality rates, reveal a peak in inequality followed (in 3 of the 4 countries) by appreciable …The measurement of inequality is often made using observed population-based distributions, such as the distribution of … income or the distribution of members of different groups across neighborhoods. Unfortunately, such distributions confound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163131
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938780
We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and … 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests that any effects of income inequality on … income inequality does indeed drive population health, it implies that income inequality would have to be linked and de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168364
Ecological comparisons in sub-Saharan Africa show that HIV prevalence is lower where men are generally circumcised than where they are not. Randomized controlled trials have found a 50-60% reduction in HIV acquisition for newly circumcised men. Yet in Malawi, HIV prevalence is highest in several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399797
This paper presents a toolkit for measuring and analyzing inter-individual inequality in length of life by Gini … coefficient. Gini coefficient and four other inequality measures are defined on the length-of-life distribution. Properties of … these measures and their empirical testing on mortality data suggest a possibility for different judgements about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818129
relatively short duration. In contrast, such factors as unemployment, wife's high income, and living in a rented dwelling were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700079
Understanding the determinants of men’s extramarital sexual relations, which account for a relevant share of concurrent sexual partnerships, is an important research subject. This article focuses on examining how married men’s behavior is influenced by the fidelity norm. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132865
High parity tends to be associated with socioeconomic disadvantage, which is widely believed to be a risk factor for low birth weight. Using a fixed-effects approach (comparing children of the same mother born within the five-year period preceding Demographic and Health Surveys), this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132874
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851081