This paper investigates changes to the health status of young children (aged 0–5 years) in the Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa during 1993–98. In our estimation we explicitly take into account the potential endogeneity of household resources in affecting child health. In particular, we examine whether the effect of resources is differentiated by the source, the age and the sex of the rec...

This study investigated predictors of happiness and life satisfaction in Rwanda. Data from the World Value Survey (2007; 2012) and gathered from 3,030 Rwandese (age ranging 16 to 90 years, mean age = 34.2, SD = 12.7; 50.5% were females) were pooled for the analysis. For the comparison, international World Value Survey data were utilized. A fixed effects multilevel regression model was used to p...

This paper analyzes the effects of availability of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on children’s SCHIP enrollment and Medicaid enrollment in addition to more commonly focused overall public and private coverage and the uninsured rate. Linear probability models with controls for state and quarter of year fixed effects were estimated using data from the National Health Inter...

Widespread public sector unionism emerged only in the 1960s, as individual states opened the door to collective bargaining for state and municipal workers. This study exploits differences in timing across states to construct estimates of the causal effects of public sector collective bargaining rights on pay, benefits, and employment for teachers, fire fighters, and police. Perhaps surprisingly...

The paper deals with a quantitative approach to safety assessment process applicable to the safety-related system, specially the railway interlocking one. The authors present the methodology based on the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) that is applicable to performing safety analysis of both electronic and computer based systems. The mathematical basis...

This paper examines the impact of being a victim of violent or property crime on labour market outcomes and general well-being using longitudinal data from the nationally representative Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) survey. We estimate fixed effects regression models that examine changes in outcomes for individuals before/after victimisation relative to changes in ou...

This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and specific health outcomes using the GSOEP and the BHPS. Both countries are in the top three of European countries in which commuting time is largest. First, we analyze whether commuting time affects specific health outcomes. We analyze both subjective health outcomes like health satisfaction and health status, and objective measures lik...

An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the individual may enter a prolonged depression. We inves...

This paper analyzes the results of a critical peak pricing (CPP) experiment involving 123 residential customers of the City of Anaheim Public Utilities (APU) over the period June 1, 2005 to October 14, 2005. Using a nonparametric condition mean estimation framework that allows for customer-specific fixed effects and day-of-sample fixed effects, I find that customers in the treatment group consu...

Using an individual panel data set to control for student fixed effects, we estimate the impact of charter schools on students in charter schools and in nearby traditional public schools. We find that students make considerably smaller achievement gains in charter schools than they would have in public schools. The large negative estimates of the effects of attending a charter schools are neith...