in this paper, asymmetric effects of exchange rate fluctuation (according to positive and negative shocks) on real output were investigated. in the meantime, the study of behaviour of real output growth in iran’s economy over the period 1338-1386 was done. in specification of the output growth equation, in spite of considering positive and negative shocks of exchange rate, the effects of other ...

Data from 275 individuals, collected at the individual and household levels were analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques to examine relationships between perception of development and observed socio-economic, demographic and wellbeing variables. Perception of development was computed using 6 development-progressive statements administered in a survey, most of which relate to the ...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of obesity and its association with socioeconomic status, little is known about this condition in Korean adolescents. We examined the relationship between obesity in Korean adolescents and several socioeconomic variables and compared the association of obesity with conventional and subjective indicators of socioeconomic status. METHODS The study comprised 60 ...

BACKGROUND There are contradictory results regarding whether there is a social gradient in common mental disorders or not, or if this relation differs for different indicators or by gender. We analysed the relation between various measures of socio-economic position and later psychological distress among men and women in a Swedish context. METHODS The study is based on data from the Northern ...

The good knowledge of the correlates of educational achievement highlights the ways to the efficient use of economic and human capital in raising the efficiency of education. The present paper investigates the correlates and compares the values of the correlates for the Republic of Lithuania with the average international values. The data for the analysis were taken from the TIMSS 2003 mathemat...

OBJECTIVE Toward explicating relations between economic adversity and children's sleep, we examined associations between multiple indicators of socioeconomic status (SES)/adversity and children's objectively and subjectively derived sleep parameters; ethnicity was examined as potential moderator. METHODS Participants were 276 third- and fourth-grade children and their families (133 girls; M a...

environmental crisis is one of the most important global problems. dealing with this crisis as a collective effort requires formation of environmentalism attitudes among people. what is considerable in this field is to identify the factors affecting people’s attitudes towards environmentalism especially women. since, based on two main perspectives of ecofeminism; i.e. women's relationship ...

BACKGROUND Public health research is shifting focus to the role of socioeconomic indicators in the promotion of health. As such an understanding of the roles that socio-economic factors play in improving health and health-seeking behaviour is important for public health policy. This is because the share of resources devoted to different policy options should depend on their relative effectivene...

Policies related to thwarting transnational terrorism have been at the forefront of political and social debates. In this paper we empirically examine the impacts of socio-economic conditions on the probability and frequency of participation in transnational terrorism events. We use count data analysis techniques in combination with the newly combined annual data on transnational terrorism and ...

introduction rural women, especially in the third world countries, have a major role in the economic, social and cultural activities. check the status of women in the developing countries 52 represents the fact that women over 40% of agricultural activities are doing with respect to the axis of the nature of the agricultural activities in the economic development of iran, and the role of rural ...