Does the safety net reduce food insecurity in families? In this paper we investigate how the structure of benefits for five major safety net programs – TANF, SSI, EITC, SNAP, and Medicaid – affects low food security in families and very low food security among children. We build a calculator for the years 2001-2009 to impute eligibility and benefits for these programs in each state, taking into...

The application of VAP-II may be useful not only in elucidating the roles played by specific lipoprotein abnormalities in contributing to CHD, but also in yielding valuable insight into the specific benefits of therapeutic regimens to decrease CHD risk. Evidence for an independent relationship between insulin resistance and fasting plasma HDL-cholesterol, triglyceride and insulin concentrations...

In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider fixed costs of work, the complications introduced by the benefits system, dynamic aspects of labour su...

This paper provides an analytical characterization of Markov perfect equilibria in a model with repeated voting, where agents vote over distortionary income redistribution. A key result is that the future constituency for redistributive policies depends positively on current redistribution, since this a¤ects both private investments and the future distribution of voters. The model features mult...

Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) represent distinct pieces of DNA that are present in the genomes of pathogenic bacteria but absent from the genomes of related nonpathogenic strains. They carry (often more than one) virulence genes and are linked to transfer RNA (tRNA) loci. In addition, they carry mobility genes and direct repeats at their ends and are often unstable [1]. The first PAIs have been ...

We present high resolution H41 hydrogen recombination line observations of the 1 2 (3 pc) region surrounding Sagittarius A (Sgr A ) at 92 GHz using the Millimeter Array at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) with an angular resolution of 7 3 and velocity resolution of 13 km s−1. New observations of H31 , H35 , H41 and H44 lines were obtained using the NRAO 12-m telescope, and their relati...

Recent full decoupling of EU agricultural subsidy payments from production in Ireland is forecast to result in substantial destocking of grassland over the coming decade. In conjunction with increased energy prices, this presents new opportunities for energy crops. This paper uses extensive literature review and country-specific information on current prices to construct life-cycle cost assessm...

This study aims to examine the effect of investment and consumption spending on Indonesia’s economic growth. The data used is the quarterly time series data from the first quarter of year 2003 to the fourth quarter of year 2013, comprising consumption spending, investment and economic growth. For the purpose of analysis, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used. The result of the...

P eople’s business credit program (KUR) has been launched to alleviate poverty through provision of micro financing to micro entrepreneurs in Indonesia This study aims to estimate the impact of KUR program using cross-sectional data and propensity score matching technique (PSM). The survey was conducted on 332 household entrepreneurs, consisting of 155 KUR receivers and 177 non-KUR r...

An average Reynolds equation for predicting the effects of deterministic periodic roughness, taking JFO mass flow preserving cavitation model into account, is introduced based upon double scale analysis approach. This average Reynolds equation can be used both for a microscopic interasperity cavitation and a macroscopic one. The validity of such a model is verified by numerical experiments both...