Doctors are involved in voluntary service more commonly than both the community and our professional colleagues realise. Traditionally, doctors are seen as busy healers who never stop looking after the sick and/or making a fortune from their daily activities. On the other hand, many in society think doctors are typically earning such high incomes that they can readily afford to volunteer their ...

In a sample of Tanzanian formal sector workers the vast majority have a desire for working longer hours in their main job, and supplement earnings through participation in informal production. Determinants of participation in informal production are examined through estimation of structural-form Logit models. A new way around the problem of measuring incomes from informal production is suggeste...

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to contrast the demographic correlates of leisure and transportation walking. METHODS Using data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey (n=31,482), this paper reports on the prevalence of transportation walking and leisure walking for U.S. adults and examines the variation in prevalence across different socio-demographic groups. The prevalence of transportati...

Stabilizing farm revenues is a goal of agricultural policies around the world, especially in vulnerable regions with limited access to crop insurance. One potential pathway revenue stability follows “insurance hypothesis”, which holds that diversification has stabilizing effects on productivity mitigate risks from environmental stressors and market shocks, thereby producing form natural insuran...

Despite repeated wars and the persistence of feudal land tenure, agricultural sector is at center economic activity for most rural households in Democratic Republic Congo. This study aims to assess competitivity relation other sectors activity, such as mining. To achieve this aim, it analyses compares incomes different farmers. It also these with their from activity. paid particular attention t...

Instability (or variability) in farm income represents a significant challenge for management and the design of public policies. Identifying farming practices which can increase stability may help farms to cope with shocks such as extreme weather events economic challenges. Farming associated increasing agricultural diversity agri-environment schemes are considered improve ecological functions ...

In this paper I study the long-term effects of inter-municipal moving during childhood on income using Swedish register data. Due to the richness of the data I am able to control for important sources of selection into moving, such as parent separation, parents’ unemployment, education, long run income, and immigration background. I find that children’s long run incomes are significantly negati...

Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008 Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution acros...