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Book Review of Beyond GDP: Measuring Welfare and Assessing Sustainability
(Springer Science and Business Media, 2015-07)
Social Capital and Basic Goods: The Cautionary Tale of Drinking Water in India
(2010-10)
This study uses micro-data from the 1998-99 Indian Time Use Survey (ITUS; covering 77,593 persons in 18,591 households in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa, and Haryana) to argue that time use data ...
Intertwined Epidemics: National Demographic Trends in Hospitalizations for Heroin- and Opioid-Related Overdoses, 1993-2009
(2013-02)
The historical patterns of opiate use show that sources and methods of access greatly influence who is at risk. Today, there is evidence that an enormous increase in the availability of prescription opiates is fuelling a ...
Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?
(2012-11)
Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus in-home ...
Inter-generational effects of disability benefits: evidence from Canadian social assistance programs
(Springer-Verlag, 2015-04)
Individuals with disabilities face greater challenges in the labor market than able-bodied individuals, and a growing body of research is finding that their children also tend to have more developmental problems than the ...
The Effect of Economic Insecurity on Mental Health: Recent Evidence from Australian Panel Data
(2015-12)
This paper estimates the impact of economic insecurity on the mental health of Australian adults. Taking microdata from the 2001-2011 HILDA panel survey, we develop a conceptually diverse set of insecurity measures and ...
The Impact of the Great Recession on Economic Wellbeing - How Different are OECD Nations and Why?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2014)