The aims of this study were to test the associations among socio-economic status (SES) and substance use in adolescents, and to compare the relative strength of associations for different types of SES markers, including financial resources and family social status. A total of 113 teenagers reported their substance use, and parents reported family SES. High SES teens were more likely to use subs...

Given the recent preoccupations of scientific environment for “resource curse” in context financial development, aim this paper is to explore more connection between development and natural resources abundance/dependence major five gas exporters period 1996–2021. The panel data models based on DOLS/FMOLS approach mean group (MG) estimator suggest that impact resource abundance depends type indi...

Empirical research suggests that financial inclusion initiatives – such as facilitating access to financial resources or providing microcredit – are alone not enough to lower socioeconomic disparities. In this article, we adopt a critical stance as a guide for our empirical investigation. Our aim is to propose a financial education framework, tailored to low-income micro-entrepreneurs, that emb...