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Drinking beer, wine or spirits – does it matter for inequalities in alcohol-related hospital admission? A record-linked longitudinal study in Wales

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Alcohol-related harm has been found to be higher in disadvantaged groups, despite similar alcohol consumption to advantaged groups. This is known as the alcohol harm paradox.
Andrea Gartner   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage ? Hungary’s Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In January 2001 the Hungarian government increased the minimum wage from Ft 25,500 to Ft 40,000. One year later the wage floor rose further to Ft 50,000. The paper looks at the short-run impact of the first hike on small-firm employment and flows between
Kertei, Gábor, Köll?, János
core   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing the cost of inequality [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
![Figure][1] The health care system struggles daily to manage a large and growing burden of disease. It is the role of public health to reduce that burden, which is why investment in public health is so valuable. But public health is also committed to reducing health inequalities. There are,
openaire   +2 more sources

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

$su(d)$-squeezing and many-body entanglement geometry in finite-dimensional systems [PDF]

open access: yesQuantum
Generalizing the well-known spin-squeezing inequalities, we study the relation between squeezing of collective $N$-particle $su(d)$ operators and many-body entanglement geometry in multi-particle systems.
Giuseppe Vitagliano   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How can inequalities in mortality be reduced? A quantitative analysis of 6 risk factors in 21 European populations.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundSocioeconomic inequalities in mortality are one of the greatest challenges for health policy in all European countries, but the potential for reducing these inequalities is unclear.
Terje A Eikemo   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interval Constraint Solving for Camera Control and Motion Planning

open access: yes, 2003
Many problems in robust control and motion planning can be reduced to either find a sound approximation of the solution space determined by a set of nonlinear inequalities, or to the ``guaranteed tuning problem'' as defined by Jaulin and Walter, which ...
Benhamou, Frederic   +3 more
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