the friedman family assessment model

... team The book you read reflects the care and quality of her work While they are thanked in the introduction to the text, particular thanks are due here to all the contributors to the volume To the ... which the book succeeds in being more than the sum of its parts, it owes a great debt to the individual authors who were willing to think beyond the boundaries of their own endeavors Neither last ... conditions on the health and development of children, the care of the elderly and disabled, the ability of employed adults to obtain and retain work, and the ability of nations to decrease the number...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2014, 14:20

... on the estimated models, the contributions of the various factors to the change in the Gini coefficient can be calculated as the average annual change in the respective variable multiplied by the ... but their effects were not robustly estimated.17 To gain further insight into the impact of globalization on inequality, the empirical model was also estimated using the income shares of the ... appendix provides further details on the construction of the variables and the data sources used in this chapter Gini Index The primary source for the Gini index data is the World Bank Povcal...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... Popular that aims to enroll the majority of the poor by the middle of the next decade.21 Health insurance is not the only way to improve the access of the poor to the cash they need for health care.22 ... it is in the bottom 10 percent of the urban distribution in the survey; poor if it is in the 11th to 25th percentiles; near-poor if in the 26th to 50th percentile range; and other if in the top ... times the costs of food—in the sample of countries analyzed by David Satterthwaite, the ratio of the overall to the food poverty line was only 1.3 for the median country—raising doubts about whether...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... Thus, the study compared mortality rates between those born in the last months of 1916 (the experimental group) and those born in the first months of 1917 (the control group) They found that the ... inheritances occur mainly at the upper end of the income distribution, but the association between income and health is strongest at the bottom end of the income distribution, the study is biased against ... Policy on Health among the Elderly There have been only a handful of studies that directly estimate the causal effects of income transfer policies on the health of the elderly These have been done...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... were fitted (model 1) To study the impact of the household characteristics, the type of household and the caring tasks were added at the second step (model 2) Finally, to control by the level of ... from their spouses or other family members This, however, is a speculation that deserves further investigation Although family networks are an important source of support in Spain, the family ... for the ‘ healthy worker hypothesis’, that good health increases the probability of getting or keeping a paid job (Ross and Mirowsky 1995) The decision to take 85 years as the maximum age, on the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... concerned with the ways that user fees affect the poor The evidence of the impact of user fees in the public sector largely demonstrates that they reduce the take-up of services by the poor and ... France The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization or of the ... should reflect the urgency of the poverty and health challenge, both in terms of the size of the budget for health and other social sectors, and the share of health resources allocated to the activities...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... and the policy rules relate to the year 2003 The authors’ study then uses the tax-benefit model to analyze the existing tax-benefit system in Brazil, thus presenting the baseline scenario The authors ... the local level during the period 1970–1996: while the municipios in the southern part of the country have experienced some convergence, this is not the case in the northern regions Inequalities ... times larger than the poorest, whereas the ratio is only 1.7 in the southeast De Vreyer and Spielvogel find that over the period 1970–1996 inequality increased in the north and the northeast regions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:48

... explain the theoretical as well as the historical background of the dual labour market approach, discuss the theoretical background and the conditions under which the involuntary division of the ... examination of the data The former, based on the Employment Status Survey, and the latter, based on the Family Income and Expenditure Survey and the Survey on the Living Conditions of the Nation, ... this chapter constitutes the central chapter of the book In Chapter 6, I examine the applicability of the dual labour market theory and/ or the integrated theory in the Japanese labour market...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:21

... simulations Section puts the expanded model in the control theory framework and gives a sensitivity analyse 2.2 THE MODEL 2.2.1 The Model Setup The model consists of the GDP identity and functions ... Economic theory has little to say about the lag structure, and the lag variables are included in the stochastic equations, since they result in a better fit of the model to the data Since all the ... influence the evolution of economics variables in the other In the first essay a two-country model is used to illustrate the interdependence of these two economies Not surprisingly, we found that the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 07:54

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Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:17

... discusses the general equilibrium of the baseline model In section five, we further extend the analysis to investigate the impact of skill-biased technological change Section six concludes this thesis ... families On the other hand, the increase in the unskilled wage and the corresponding increase of physical education investment in unskilled families improve their child’s upward mobility, as the physical ... intergenerational mobility The rest of this paper is organized as follows The next section reviews the related literature Section three sets up the general equilibrium structure of the model, including...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:24

... In from the Cold: Toward a Progressive Evaluation Model 253 Robert Picciotto Introduction The Context The Inequality Challenge Filling the Values Gap Putting Equity at the Center of the Evaluative ... Of the many poverty measures, the industry standard is the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke class of indexes, which can account for  the percentage of population, the gap, and the distribution below the ... inference in the social sciences Finally, the widening of the policy and programming framework extends the field of evaluation work The net effect of these three changes is to expand the scope for...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2015, 20:01

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... discusses the roles that women play in their families’ health care, including the decisions they make on behalf of their children, the impact their multiple roles have on their own stress, and their ... central, as they are the primary coordinators of health care for their children The vast majority, approximately 80%, of mothers shoulder main responsibility in the family for selecting their children’s ... delve deeper into women’s experiences and further explore some of the challenges they face in their interactions with the health care system The sample of the survey was also expanded to include women...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... if they are to achieve equality and reach their full potential Americans worry about the inadequacies of their health care coverage, its high costs, and the problems they face in getting the ... to provide the information, services, and options that foster it They believe that their ability to plan when to start a family and make other important life decisions is integral to their personal ... pregnancy rates.78 On the other hand, there is no empirical evidence to support the claim that that access to contraception increases the teen birth rate79 and, conversely, there are data demonstrating...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... to illness, the cost to their employer is not only the cost of the absentee’s forgone labour, it is also the cost of the loss of production from other members of the team who rely on the absent ... productivity The same model is also used to estimate the potential wages of people who are unemployed or not in the labour force if they were to become employed The outline of the paper is as follows: the ... were fed into the economy-wide model Particularly in the case of health, the literature was sparse and the estimates were not all directly relevant to the modelling task • Estimates of the potential...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... depend on their distance to the best-practice frontier (the lower the efficiency score, the less efficient the unit) Several measures of the distance to the frontier can be used Here we adopt the Farrell ... related to average PISA mathematics test scores, the distribution of those test scores (measured as the ratio of the score at the 25th percentile in the country to the score at the 75th percentile), ... across the board in the regressions of 29 The difference in the efficiency score between a pair of countries where one dominates the other in DEA is equivalent to the expenditure savings that the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... the work of the commissions and plenary which debated the official documents of the Conference The Hamburg Declaration and The Agenda for the Future, there were 33 workshops organised around the ... have brought the two sectors closer together In the area of health, major changes in policy have been seen since the end of the 70s The Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy based on the integration ... recognise the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20