The current article reflects, since the analysis of the time uses in the galician households, about the necessity of adding up a gender perspective to measure the socioeconomic phenomenons. The time uses have a close relation with welfare and life quality, and they are a useful tool to go in...

In recent years, the household composition in Galicia has experienced profound changes; the proportion represented by the nuclear families has been increased, the average family size has been reduced, the importance of single person households has been increased, etc. These changes could involve...

It is more than ten years India embarked on bold new policy on economic front. In these fourteen odd years there has been progress in both quantity and the way country attracted FDI. There has been a paradigm shift in the flow of FDI and consequent evolution of the country into a low cost,...

The vulnerability of health sector to corruption lies in the complex interaction between the social environment and the institutional setting of health systems. We investigate this interaction in the case of Italy, speci�cally looking at the impact of corruption on health expenditure. In Italy...

This essay investigates the effect of education on different lifestyle variables using NLSY79 panels for 1992, 1994, and 1998. The lifestyle variables are smoking, drinking, marijuana use, and cocaine use. The analysis addresses the joint determination of lifestyle variables within the framework...

This paper examines whether the interest rate preferences of Federal Reserve Bank Presidents are subject to a regional bias. In order to evaluate the regional bias hypothesis, we augment individual Taylor rules for the Federal Reserve Bank Presidents (sample 1989 to 2006) with regional variables...

Apesar de uma série argumentos teóricos e evidências empíricas demonstrarem que a partir de certos níveis de renda ocorre a chamada EKC (Environmental Kuznets Curve), i.e., uma relação em “U” invertido entre renda e degradação ambiental (ou consumo dos recursos naturais) estudos...

The innovation systems approach, which has taken a prominent position in the academic literature, has also influenced policy-makers around the globe. Most research analyses innovation systems taking a national, regional or sectoral perspective, following a 'technological imperative'. Yet changes...