In the light of previous literature fertility determines different economic, social and program inputs variables. The main object of this study to investigate the impact of sector specific (health and education) foreign aid on fertility in case of Pakistan. For empirical investigation Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) is used over the period of 1973-2012. The results of the study sho...

To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that they obey mor...

e-learning as an educational approach has been adopted by diverse educational and academic centers worldwide as it facilitates learning in facing the challenges of the new era in education. considering the significance of virtual education and its growing practice, it is of vital importance to examine its components for promoting and maintaining success. this analytical cross-sectional study wa...

The aim of the study was to describe the associations between socio-economic status and type 2 diabetes in a non-institutionalised population aged 70 years or over. Diabetes was assessed on the basis of self-reports and additionally 2-h oral glucose tolerance test for the subjects on diet treatment. Socio-economic status was assessed by questions on marital status, number of residents in househ...

The paper designs an indigenous module to upgrade the media literacy among high school students utilizing the “multimedia education”, “the cultural studies”, the theory of “New London Group” and “the political media literacy” by Ferguson. The method used is in two categories, documentary and survey. The population comprises of the tenth and eleventh graders in the 2nd region of the ministry of ...

conclusions this study showed that gender, education level, occupation, socioeconomic status, medical care, health condition, lifestyle, family conflict, drug abuse history, and religious attitudes are the major social factors of risky driving on the intercity roads of tehran province. background traffic accidents are the major cause of injuries that endanger the lives of many people annually. ...

In this paper, I studied occupational choice and financial deepening among households inCote d’Ivoire, particularly in the context of the relationship between wealth and education.My study is based on the occupational choice model established by Lloyd-Ellis and Bernhardt(2000) (hereafter LEB) and the financial deepening model of Greenwood and Jovanovic (1990)(hereafter GJ).I...

BACKGROUND The current study compared working and non-working groups of women in relation to intimate partner violence. The paper aims to explore the relationship between women's economic empowerment, their exposures to IPV and their help seeking behavior using a nationally representative sample in India. METHODS This was a cross sectional study of 124,385 ever married women of reproductive a...