OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between household income and metabolic syndrome in men and women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 1,695 men and 1,664 women, aged 35-64 years, from three distinct geographical areas of France were investigated. Waist girth, plasma triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, glucose, and systolic blood pressure were used to define metabolic syndrome according to...

In this paper we examine the concept of "vulnerability" (Townsend 1994) within the context of income mobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UK using Waves 1 12 of the British Household Panel Survey and find that, of three different types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wide aggregate shocks have the greatest impact on cons...

The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic transition would affect inputs to growth. However, existing macro and micro simulations are estimate...

Of 4736 poisoning incidents registered in the Poison Control Centre in Zagreb from 1985 to 1999, household chemicals caused 23%. In the group of cleaning products, 11% of poisoning incidents were caused by corrosives, 9% by liquid detergents and 4% by hypochlorite. Organic solvents caused 18% of household chemical poisonings; among them gasoline and thinners were the most frequent. Cosmetics we...

BACKGROUND Models of infectious disease increasingly seek to incorporate heterogeneity of social interactions to more accurately characterise disease spread. We measured attributes of social encounters in two areas of Greater Melbourne, using a telephone survey. METHODS A market research company conducted computer assisted telephone interviews (CATIs) of residents of the Boroondara and Hume l...

The article explores a series of questions and hypotheses related to polygynous family structures and both household and individual-level food security outcomes, using the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey data from Nigeria, collected in 2011, 2013 and 2015. A Correlated Random Effects (CRE) model is used to examine the relationship between polygyny and household-level food securit...

This paper aims to determine emissions polluted directly and indirectly by an average person, for each household type, across a wide range of emissions. There are five household type categories: location, income decile, household composition, size and number of disabled residents. Ireland's Sustainable Development Model (ISus) is used which allows the analysis of direct and indirect sources of ...

Complementing evidence that childhood poverty negatively affects adult outcomes, the impact of poverty on well-being in late childhood is investigated empirically to help inform the targeting of policy. Child well-being and household poverty are conceptualised as multi-dimensional phenomena and structural equation modelling used to ascertain the relative importance of determinants of child well...

The 1990s were remarkably good to U.S. stockholders. Stock returns for the decade averaged 16.1 percent per year, almost twice the historical average of 8.7 percent. The decade began modestly enough, yielding a 5.9 percent annual return to equity from 1990 to 1995, but it f inished exceptionally strong, with an astonishing 26.3 percent average annual return from 1996 to 1999. As returns mounted...

In the developing world, little is known about urban chronic poverty based on quantitative evidence mainly due to lack of data tracking the same households over time. In this paper, we analyse 3 waves of a unique and rich panel data set on 1500 households collected through the Ethiopian Urban Household Surveys from 1994 to 1997. Based on real total household expenditure per month as our preferr...