In this paper we use German Microcensus data to investigate whether the positive relationship between higher levels of schooling and health is causal by exploiting a natural experiment in Western Germany. During the 1960’s and 1970’s the educational system greatly expanded in Western Germany, but the timing of the educational expansion differed between states. This introduces exogenous variatio...

Over the last sixty years, the world has witnessed a remarkable transformation in educational opportunity. The inclusion of education as one of the fundamental rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948, and the ensuing creation of a global architecture to support the achievement of this right, transformed humanity. Whereas sixty years ago the vast majority of the world...

This paper explores statistically the implications of the shift from communal to individualized tenure on the distribution of land and schooling between sons and daughters in Western Sumatra. The inheritance system is evolving from a strictly matrilineal system to a more egalitarian system in which sons and daughters inherit the type of land which is more intensive in their own work effort. Whi...

This study is a descriptive type of cross sectional as well qualitative study, which conducted among the diabetic patients BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka. The main objective was to assess knowledge and practice about foot care prevalence infection patients. 100 were purposively chosen, face interview through questionnaire along with infected examination an check list done. A clear relationship establis...

of August, 1866. History.?Patient, in May 1866, sustained a fall from a mango tree, from a height of about eighteen fyet. Ilis right foot swelled and suppurated, and there was an abundant discharge of pus from the heel; on the discharge subsiding, several sinuses remained, which continued to emit a small quantity of matter. Jle has fallen off in health since the accident happened, and has not r...

just beyond the point where they are willing to work with their hands, and where they are inclined to prefer the 'genteel' clerkship to the better paid and more valuable labor of the trained mechanic or the farmer?" It is with this significant remark that Mr. Ira Jewell Williams in a preface calls attention to the evident lack in present-day American education, and to the way out as shown by th...

The aim of the study was to develop a formula to estimate the stature and sex of an individual using foot and shoe dimensions. To this aim the stature, right and left shoe sizes, and maximum and minimum feet length and width measurements of a target group of 569 individuals were taken. The group was composed of 294 males and 275 females. The highest correlation coefficient was found in length m...