We test for the long-term impact of experiencing “prosperity in youth” (PIY) on nontraditional category consumption. Using unique twenty-year panel data of individuals from nine Chinese provinces with varying levels of per-capita GDP and rates of per-capita GDP growth, we find robust evidence for the PIY effect. We find both a direct effect of one’s own prosperity and an indirect effect of the ...

M e t h o d s Design: Cohort study. Setting: A health maintenance organization in northern California, United States. Patients: 320 252 adults who were ≥ 18 years of age (mean age 38 y, 54% women); participated in screening health checkups between 1964 and 1985; and had ≥ 1 concurrent measurement of height, weight, blood pressure, serum creatinine level, and dipstick urinalysis. Exclusion crite...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized controlled trial (Breast International Group [BIG] 1-98 study). Allocation: Concealed.* Blinding: Blinded {patients, clinicians, outcome assessors, data analysts, and data safety and monitoring committee}†.* Follow-up period: Median 26 months. Setting: Several hundred centers worldwide. Patients: 8028 postmenopausal women 38 to 90 years of age (median age 61 y) ...

As one of the earliest concerns mankind education is an essential feature humanity Education means transmission knowledge, key factor for development, prosperity and welfare a society. Muslims are educationally backward in India. It due to many factors them their aversion wards western past. In TamilNadu established number educational institutions benefit community higher institution proportion...

THE YEAR 1 9 4 0 was characterized by sharp employment increases in industries producing such durable goods as automobiles, aircraft, ships, machinery, and other ferrous metal products, and by an expansion in construction, arising out of the Nation's need for cantonments, shipways, airports, and armament plants. Industries covered by State unemployment compensation laws participated to a greate...

In recent papers, Bergin, Feenstra, and Hanson (2007 & 2009, hereafter BFH) analyze the impact that offshoring has in employment and output volatility, particularly on the Mexican maquiladora industry. Their empirical results indicate that employment and output in the offshoring manufacturing plants in Mexico are more volatile than their counterparts in the U.S. Such empirical results suggest t...

The number of nonpermanent employees is rising, but mortality in this group has received little attention. The authors examined the associations between temporary employment and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Longitudinal data from 10 towns in Finland related to 26,592 men and 65,759 women, of whom 1,332 died between 1990 and 2001. Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, occu...

This paper examines how amenities, asset indicators, and fiscal factors influence the growth in factors of production from 1972 to 1999 in the 466 non-metropolitan labor market areas in the continental United States. In developing our model of non-metropolitan factor markets, we combine the emphasis of Brown et al. (2003) on the affect of taxes and public expenditure policy on labor and capital...