This paper explores a major issue in the context of economics of inequality, namely how far the stark inequalities are retarding educational attainment in the United States in the recent period. An application of the time series ARIMA model is made to forecast both high school and college...

This paper explores the ‘globesity’ hypothesis that is, it examines, the effect of globalization in its social and economic dimensions on the obesity of the nations. The study utilized a panel set of Asian countries dividing it into two groups based on the income classification. The annual...

Analysis of data sets on contraceptive use is important to assess the effectiveness of policy decisions towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal that endeavours to ensure universal access to contraceptive use. The paper therefore attempts to estimate the trends in the contraceptive use...