Mortality rates for road traffic accidents, asthma, and cancer are worse in rural areas. Cancer is diagnosed at a later stage and intervention rates for coronary artery disease (key government targets for health improvement) are lower (Baird et al., 2006). Telemedicine can be costeffective for different entities of care. For example, teleoncology is obviously cost-effective for the patients the...

Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics recently suggested that, rather than ‘giving fifty billion dollars of overseas aid’, we should simply ‘find the poor and give them one dollar a week . . . That would probably do more to relieve poverty than anything else’. Two experiences in Mozambique of simply handing out money show this is possible. Payments to demobilized soldiers over a two y...

This paper explains the current ‘digital divide’ in internet use between rural and urban areas using a Logit adoption model with data collected from the August 2000 Current Population Survey. A non-linear decomposition shows that rural – urban household attribute differences account for 66 percent of the digital divide, while place based differences account for the remaining 34 percent of the d...

The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor, minority, or rural households. There is little evidence of unequal availability based on income or on ...

neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...

Rüdiger Voss 1*, Hans-Harald Hinrichsen 2, Daniel Stepputtis 3, Matthias Bernreuther4, Bastian Huwer5, Viola Neumann5, and Jörn O. Schmidt 1 Sustainable Fisheries, Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Wilhelm-Seelig Platz 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-I...

This paper investigates the economic impact of health shocks on working-age adults in Vietnam during 2004-2008, using a fixed effects specification. Health shocks cover disability and morbidity and are measured by 'days unable to carry out regular activity', 'days in bed due to illness/injury', and 'hospitalization'. Overall, Vietnamese households are able to smooth total non-health expenditure...

This paper examines the determinants of human and physical capital at marriage. Using detailed data from rural Ethiopia, we Þnd ample evidence of assortative matching at marriage. Assets brought to marriage are distributed in a highly unequal manner. Sorting operates at a variety of levels — wealth, schooling, and work experience — that cannot be summarized into a single additive index. For Þrs...

The chapter reviews issues, models and empirical findings relating to labor economics. First, some of the general research questions are taken up in the context of labor demand and supply, which is followed by detailed discussions on rural and urban labor markets. In the rural context the agriculture and the non-farm sectors are analyzed separately. Four important streams of arguments in the co...

Financial liberalization policies have significantly altered the structure of rural credit markets and the terms of household access to them throughout Latin America. This paper has two main objectives. First, it uses household survey data from northern Peru to fill an empirical void by presenting a detailed description of the terms of formal and informal credit contracts and the frequency of n...