Emerging trends in smartphones, online maps, social media, and the resulting geo-located data, provide opportunities to collect traces of people’s socio-economical activities in a much more granular and direct fashion, triggering a revolution in empirical research. These vast mobile data offer new perspectives and approaches for measurements of economic dynamics and are broadening the research ...

in this study, the number of 1802 longevity records of ewes collected during 1989 to 2010 in breeding station of lori-bakhtiari sheep flocks were used to estimate of genetic, environmental and phenotypic trends for economic lifetime. the breeding values of a ewe’s lifetime were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood procedure under an animal model of univariate analysis. the best linear unb...

background: to analyse time trends in self-rated health in older people by gender and age and examine disability in the time trends of self-rated health. methods: the data used come from the spanish national health surveys conducted in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2011-12. samples of adults aged 16 yr and older were selected. multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the association between a...

Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries...