This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by increasing their labor force participation, selling assets, and disinvesting in human capital, (ii) that poor households are most likely to be affected by adverse income shocks, and (iii) that lower-middle...

ABSTRACT Studies have indicated that subjects with more years of education show a positive attitude toward older persons. The present study investigated the effects of other variables,r in this case race and social class, in relationto attitudes toward older persons. A sample group of high school juniors and seniors whose ages ranged from 16 to 18 were given a questionnaire based on the Kogan A...

Abstract. This work presents an empirical study of the evolution of the personal income distribution in Brazil. Yearly samples available from 1978 to 2005 were studied and evidence was found that the complementary cumulative distribution of personal income for 99% of the economically less favorable population is well represented by a Gompertz curve of the form G (x) = exp [ exp (A − Bx)], where...

AIMS To examine the childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends between 1974 and 2003 and to assess whether these trends relate to parental social class and household income. METHODS A school based and a general population health survey: the National Study of Health and Growth in 1974, 1984, and 1994, and the Health Survey for England, yearly from 1996 to 2003. Participants were 14,587...

In the discussions of trading, unemployment and income distribution inequality, this question is raised by economists that in economic development of developing and developed countries, which policy is necessary in the first stage. Is trading liberalization the pre-requirement of transfer from a close economy to a relative open economy and is it necessary for the developed economy compared to o...

produce a measure of relative differences in each country. The figure combines the data for neonatal and postneonatal mortality and shows that England and Wales have a steeper and more consistent gradient of mortality across social classes than Sweden. The width of the "steps" is proportional to each class's share of total live births. The differences in total mortality and its socioeconomic di...

The paper provides estimates of the effect of economic inequality on middle class well being in Switzerland. Economic well being is proxied by a person’s satisfaction with his/her income. Two inequality indicators are used, one standard (the Gini coefficient of the pre-tax income distribution) and one novel (the number of luxury car registrations per 1000 population). Identification is through ...