Materials and methods Statistical analysis of infant mortality and social determinants data using correlations, factor analysis and multiple regressions were undertaken in order to examine the collective influence of a range of social determinants indices on variations observed in infant mortality. Determinants of infant mortality in Malaysia tested in this study include GDP per capita, poverty...

T his study aims to demonstrate that joining in risk sharing network leads to the reduction in incomes volatility. In this respect, income variance for a group of members in an informal insurance is modelled in which income variance prior to joining risk sharing network and after joining is analyzed statistically. A Monte Carlo simulation technique is used to prove the result. To extend an...

This paper derives the incidence of linear taxes on capital and labor in a competitive equilibrium in balanced growth. The paper further considers a tax on consumption and a tax credit. Tax incidence is determined using an analytic expression for the saving rate out of income net of all taxes and credits. Results for zero population growth do not extend to positive population growth, where the ...

BACKGROUND Immunization offers the best protection from influenza infection. Little evidence describes disparities in immunization uptake among low-income individuals. Higher rates of chronic disease put this population at increased risk of influenza-related complications. This analysis examines if the type of main source of household income in low-income groups affects influenza immunization u...

In many developing countries and in East Asia’s NIEs, demographic change has favored economic growth. A demographic dividend or demographic window arises because the working-age populations are growing more rapidly than the number of consumers. This provides an extra boost to per capita income. As is widely appreciated, the demographic dividend is transitory. In the coming decades, the number o...

according to concern the role of population on growth of economic, in this study proceeds the study of age structure population on growth of iran’s economic. to achieve the experimental results, period of 1966-2009 is selected and used of auto regressive distributed lag method to achieve the experimental results. independent variables include the per capita income, population growth rates of 64...