Alzheimer's disease is a devastating chronic disease that significantly increases healthcare costs and affects the quality of life (QoL) of the afflicted patients and their caregivers. Population aging and other demographic changes may further increase the already staggering costs of this devastating disease. While few pharmacoeconomic studies have used a prospective health economics design to ...

This paper explores the role of home economics education in 21st century. It commences with an explanation disruption to five predicted future global megatrends – globalisation, urbanisation, digitisation, cybersecurity, sustainability as a consequence Covid-19 pandemic. The place framing is explored by presenting textual analysis literacy publication created acceleration point for next one hun...

In 1968, Professor Don Paarlberg, a noted agricultural economist, completed his book titled “Great Myths of Economics.” In this book, Paarlberg contends that while mythology is most often uncovered in the study of such subjects as weather, home remedies, and history, it can also be found in the field of economics. Paarlberg then proceeds to purge his own profession of economic folklore, half-tr...

This article is concerned with the economics of excessively large and socially costly suburban expansion and attempts to summarize and organize the main economic arguments associated with sprawl due to single-family residential home construction. We also apply standard welfare economics and price policy instruments to the issue of suburban sprawl in order to suggest ways in which economics can ...

Over two percent of school children are home schooled and eleven percent sent to private school. I estimate models of school choice using household-level data from three rounds of the National Household Education Survey merged to secondary data sets. Families are inclined to avoid low quality public schools. For families leaving the public school system, they are relatively more likely to exit ...