Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in...

Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in...

Using the data from the national American Housing Survey for the year 2009 this paper examines the housing quality gap for minorities and immigrants. Using logit model this paper finds that there is a significant quality gap for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in the U.S. but not...

Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009 and logit model, this paper finds that there is a significant adequacy difference for Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in...

The nexus between infant mortality decline and fertility decline has been the subject matter of several theoretical and empirical investigations. However, this relationship still remains an open question, as the literature provides only mixed empirical evidence. We investigate this relationship...

This paper aims to explore the impact of food insecurity on students' standardized test scores by using a panel data of US states from 2005-2012. While estimating this relationship, we also address the endogeneity bias of food insecurity in the math-SAT score regression by relying on a dynamic...

Several studies have examined the effect of employment guarantee schemes on various aspects of participants' welfare including its role as social safety net. However, the literature is sparse in regards to its effect on children's health outcomes, as well as the gender discrimination aspect of...

Health inequality across various social groups has profound implications for understanding and lessening of socioeconomic inequality. This study is an endeavor in that regard and attempts to investigate the role of Employment Guarantee Schemes (EGS) in influencing health inequality. Using a...

We investigate the phenomenon of flypaper effect and its relationship with the local tax effort by using a panel data comprising approximately 48 percent of the Mexican municipalities. Our estimations based on the difference and system GMM estimators confirm the existence of flypaper effect....