BACKGROUND China has experienced a rapid increase in hypertension over the past decade, especially in rural. Therefore, the aim of this research is to examine the dynamic trends in urban-rural disparities in hypertension prevalence, detection, and medication use among Chinese adults from 1993 to 2011. METHODS Data were extracted from the seven latest waves of the China Health and Nutrition Su...

This paper analyzes how discrimination by gender in Chile evolved over the period 1958-1996. The paper takes advantage of a series of household surveys that cover an unusually long time series for a developing country. This provides a valuable picture of trends in discrimination over a period that exhibited diverse economic conditions and policies. The study is based on the basic model for the ...

This paper examines the sources of the sex wage gap in a set of EU countries with the European Structure of Earnings Survey (ESES), a unique cross-national survey of matched employeremployee data. The paper moves beyond traditional analysis of sex wage gap by incorporating the workplace effect in the wage outcomes of men and women and by developing inter-country comparisons via the Juhn-Murphy-...