Therefore, we expect people in more individualist countries to be more resistant to social distancing measures because they underestimate the risk and place personal freedom over concerns about the dangers of COVID-19. Individualism is associated with a desire to maintain self-concept and with ...
Births were classified as South Asian if the mother and father were both born in Bangladesh, British India Ocean Territories, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, or Pakistan. These locations were chosen in consultation with immigrant and cultural support organisations in British Columbia. Immigrants from these...
Findings in the literature have also been inconsistent; in Bangladesh and Peru, women with unwanted pregnancies were less likely to pursue professional delivery services (Marston and Cleland 2003; Rahman et al. 2016), but a similar trend was not present in Egypt, Kenya, Bolivia, the Philippines...
Meanwhile, East and South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, China, India, and the Persian Gulf experienced the highest level of PM2.5 concentration in 2015. Ambient PM2.5 is the leading environmental factor for death, accounting for about 4.2 million deaths in 2015, nearly 40 percent of ...
Tiwari (1994) elucidated that opportunity costs may change because of changing economy, and using a single discount rate (estimated either by any of the measures of central tendency or by econometric methods) may not be appropriate as it can overestimate or underestimate the expected market value ...
Information on such credited service was not collected during the survey, which can potentially underestimate the probability and intensity of EFS within the sample. We did not observe any association between the trust of a household head and the probability of acquiring EFS. According to Carpiano ...