Parents invest in their children’s human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score treatment effects approach that ac...

this study aimed to investigate the extent and manner of leisure time of students who were accepted in university entrance exam by highest grades and those who were not accepted in yazd province and the role of sport in their leisure time. 132 male and female students who were accepted in university entrance exam by highest grades (under 1000) and 121 male and female students who were not accep...

this article has tried to investigate the concept of cultural capital. hence, the question is that how the concept of cultural capital in internal and external researches has been measured? and what proportion of different variables has reported with cultural capital concept? in this paper relying on internal and external researches, first, the concept of cultural capital and its dimensions hav...

Background & Aims: Physical activity in leisure time can increase life expectancy in disabled people via increasing freshness, communicating with others, and participating in community activities and can prevent withdrawal and malaise. The aim of this research was surveying on barriers for wheelchair-user disabled people in their recreational activities in southeast of Iran. Methods: In functio...

how inflation taxation affects resource allocation and welfare has received a great deal of attention. so far, this debate has been controversial. in this paper we examine how nominal money growth as a means of public finance affects resource allocation and welfare in a neoclassical endogenous growth model with leisure and money in the utility function and production externality. the present st...

INTRODUCTION Physical inactivity is a risk factor for hypertension. The objective of this study was to examine the association between self-reported leisure-time physical activity and hypertension among Brazilian adults categorized by sex and body weight. METHODS The study used data from adult respondents in 26 capital cities and the Federal District to VIGITEL (N = 54,353), Brazil's 2008 nat...

The aim of present study is sociological study of the role of cultural capital of Iranian families on their students' acceptance in university. This is a descriptive post-event survey. The statistical population of study includes all students of Shrift University of Technology who have been studying in 2015-2016 (n= 1013). The sample size was 350 students selected according to Cochran table thr...