The present study aims to investigate income distribution in Zanjan Province, for which the statistics of cost-income of the households in rural areas of Abhar County were used. They were available in the Statistical Center of Iran. In order to measure income distribution, the indicators of Lorenz curve, the Gini coefficient, the proportion of high-income groups to low-income groups, as well as...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is an association between stage of incident breast cancer (BC) and personal income three years after diagnosis. The analysis further considered whether the association differed among educational groups. METHODS The study was based on information from Danish nationwide registers. A total of 7,372 women aged 30-60 years diagn...

marginal propensity to consume (mpc) in income groups has a great importance in macroeconomic policy making. but due to some restrictions, such as lack of direct data for income and consumption groups in iran's statistical yearbooks, estimation of mpc for income groups has not been done yet. the purpose of this study is to estimate the mpc for income groups by using the relative permanent incom...

confirmation of convergence hypothesis among provinces, its role in removing divergence among regions and achieving regional convergence is one of the important issues in macroeconomics. the aim of the present study is to examine absolute and conditional income convergence hypotheses among iranian provinces during the period 2000-2010 using panel data. the hypotheses are tested for the whole pr...

abstract this study investigates casual relationship between co2 emission and gross domestic product per capita in five different country groups, using cross- country data for the period 1960-2007. to achieve the purpose, the co- integration test and error correction models are applied. results confirm casual relationships between the two variables. a unilateral relationship between gdp and co2...

OBJECTIVE To compare preference for long-acting contraception (LARC) and subsequent use, year-long continuation, and pregnancy among women after induced abortion who were and were not eligible to participate in a specialized funding program that provided LARC at no cost. METHODS Between October 2014 and March 2016, we conducted a prospective study of abortion patients at Planned Parenthood in...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to measure socio-economic inequalities in mortality over a 27-year period, and estimate the simultaneous effects of education and income adjusted for changing proportions and potential confounders. METHODS Census data in 1970, 1980 and 1990 with information about income, educational level and household size were linked to mortality records at the individua...