West Sumatera is the province with highest number of Covid-19 casesin Island and nationally it isin ninth position. Similar to other events at international national levels, spread in has an impact on regional economy. It affects not only growth macroeconomic indicators but also welfare households society directly. This study examines effects pandemic household using objective subjective observ...

This study aims to relate subjective health and medical expenditure with depression secure basic data for a program manage of participants in senior employment based on the surveyed relationship. is descriptive research identify health, expenditure, examine factors employment. To this end, 472 people 60 years or more participated study. The household member were combined 14th year 2019 15th 202...

This paper reviews advances in the study of satisfaction in the context of Social Indicators Research. Five developments are considered: 1) changes in the conceptualization of satisfaction, 2) advances in the measurement of satisfaction, 3) growth of a significant body of comparative data on satisfaction, 4) the map of satisfaction that emerges from these developments, 5) resulting advances in ...

In Geng, Weiss, and Wol (2011), we pointed to the possibility that a voting mechanism may create or strengthen an entitlement e ect in political-power holders relative to a random-appointment mechanism. This comment documents that such an e ect, if it exists, is not robust.

Objectives Estimates of occupation-specific tinnitus prevalence may help identify high-risk occupations where interventions are warranted. The authors studied the effect of occupation on prevalence of bothersome tinnitus and estimated the attributable fraction due to occupation. The authors also studied how much of the effect remained after adjusting for noise exposure, education income, hearin...

Econometric Causality This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality and model the preferences and choices of agents to infer subjective (agent) evaluations as well as objective outcomes. Anticipated and...

This paper studies a principal–agent relation in which the principal’s private information about the agent’s effort choice is more accurate than a noisy public performance measure. For some contingencies the optimal contract has to specify ex post inefficiencies in the form of inefficient termination (firing the agent) or third–party payments (money burning). We show that money burning is the l...

Accepting income diversity by households is regarded as a crucial step in breaking the vicious cycle of poverty. The study aims to investigate empirical relationship between household welfare and diversity. We examine effects potential endogeneity brought on selection bias using instrumental variable static panel model regression. Uganda National Panel Survey waves were used study. results demo...