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What explains gender inequality in HIV infection among high-risk people? A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Background Despite clear evidence on role of gender in vulnerability and exposure to HIV infection, information on gender-related inequalities in HIV and related factors are rarely documented. The aim of this study was to measure gender inequality in HIV
Mansour Sajadipour, Satar Rezaei, Seyed Fahim Irandoost, Mohammadreza Ghaumzadeh, Mohamadreza Salmani nadushan, Mohammad Gholami, Yahya Salimi, Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari   +7 more
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Blinder Oaxaca and Wilk Neutrosophic Fuzzy Set-Based IoT Sensor Communication for Remote Healthcare Analysis

IEEE Access
In the remote healthcare industry data analytics denotes the computerization of collection, processing, and exploring complicated data to acquire finer perceptions and validate healthcare practitioners to produce familiar decisions.
Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf, Rajesh Natarajan, Natesh Mahadev, Prasanna Ranjith Christodoss, Thangarasu Nainan, Carlos Andres Tavera Romero, Ghaida Muttashar Abdulsahib   +6 more
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Inverted U-shaped relationship between education and family health: The urban-rural gap in Chinese dual society

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThe Healthy China Initiative emphasizes family health. Education is an upstream determinant of health, which can both achieve upward mobility and cause class solidification.MethodsUsing nationwide large-scale data collected in 2021, the ...
Changli Jia, Changli Jia, Yanwen Long, Xiaoxia Luo, Xiao Li, Wenjing Zuo, Yibo Wu   +6 more
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Gender Gap in the Career Success of University Graduates: Effects of Work-Related Values

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020
The article deals with the unequal career outcomes between women and men. The data from the graduate survey are used to investigate the effect of work-related values on career success. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition determines which factors can explain
Zimmermann Barbara
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Ingresos económicos de mujeres frente a hombres por actividad económica en México

Nova Scientia, 2021
Introducción: la desigualdad laboral que viven hombres y mujeres se hace evidente en los ingresos. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue analizar los ingresos económicos de mujeres y hombres en las actividades económicas en México durante los últimos 15 ...
Miriam Edith Pérez-Romero, Martha Beatriz Flores-Romero, Donaji Jiménez Islas   +2 more
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Inequality in Public Health Spending and Access to Healthcare Services in Zimbabwe: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Access to healthcare services is a public health challenge worldwide. Although governments continue to channelscarce resources to enhance service provision, the World Health Organization estimates that about half the world's population lacks essential access.
Chari A, von Fintel D, Burger R.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Competing Demographic Drivers of Hospital Expenditures: Coexistence of the Red Herring and the Steepening Effects

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb, Alexander O. K. Marin, Jes Søgaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Differences in Risk Preferences: Implications for Adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The gender gap in risk preferences in rural farm households, with female farmers commonly viewed as more risk‐averse than their male counterparts, may have profound implications for addressing the gendered impacts of climate change. Understanding these gender differences and their drivers is essential for designing policies that enhance ...
Abebe Hailemariam, Jaslin Kalsi, Astghik Mavisakalyan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Oaxaca–Blinder Unexplained Component as a Treatment Effects Estimator [PDF]

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014
AbstractIn this paper I use the National Supported Work (NSW) data to examine the finite‐sample performance of the Oaxaca–Blinder unexplained component as an estimator of the population average treatment effect on the treated (PATT). Precisely, I follow sample and variable selections from Dehejia and Wahba (1999), and conclude that Oaxaca–Blinder ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Contract Labour, Job Quality and Turnover Intention—Evidence From Nigeria

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Labour contracting, where intermediaries provide farmers with migrant workers, plays a central role in meeting the demand for seasonal labour on labour‐intensive farms. Yet this system poses underresearched challenges for both workers and farmers.
Olayinka Aremu, Patrick Illien, Adeola Oluwafunmiso Olajide, Eva‐Marie Meemken   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source