Genetics and the quality of life.
Published in Social indicators research
Decision-making and informed consent: a study of the impact of disclosed information.
Published in Social indicators research
Variable predictors of attitudes toward the legalization of abortion.
Published in Social indicators research
Male attitudes toward abortion: an analysis of urban survey data.
Published in Social indicators research
Public attitudes toward fetal diagnosis and the termination of life.
Published in Social indicators research
Measuring Access to Continuing Professional Education among the Health Workers in Ghana: Constructing an Index
Published in Social Indicators Research
To measure the levels of access to continuing professional education (CPE) among the health workers, an index (continuing professional education access index: CEAI) was constructed. The CEAI is composed of six indicators: (i) availability of CPE; (ii) distribution of CPE; (iii) informational access; (iv) geographical access; (v) economic access; an...
The Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Association between Functional Status and Social Participation
Published in Social Indicators Research
The aim of the current study was to examine the interactive effects of depressive symptoms and lower extremity functioning on social participation for a group of moderately to severely disabled older women. The study used a cross-sectional community based sample, enrolled in the Women’s Health and Aging Study I, randomly selected from the Centers f...
Mobile phones in Africa: how much do we really know?
Published in Social Indicators Research
Mobile phones are a crucial mode of communication and welfare enhancement in poor countries, especially those lacking an infrastructure of fixed lines. In recent years much has been written about how mobile telephony in Africa is rapidly reducing the digital divide with developed countries. Yet, when one examines the evidence it is not at all clear...
Intra-household work time synchronization
Published in Social Indicators Research
If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing answers to the following questions: (1) Do partners coordina...
GENDER CONVERGENCE IN THE AMERICAN HERITAGE TIME USE STUDY (AHTUS).
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We present evidence from a new comprehensive database of harmonized national time-diary data that standardizes information on almost 40 years of daily life in America. The advantages of the diary method over other ways of calculating how time is spent are reviewed, along with its ability to generate more reliable and accurate measures of productive...
