Prioritarian rates of return to antipoverty transfers

Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling

Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces Qualification tes...

Using Rates of Return to Forecast Returns

In a recent pilot study, errors in forecasts of future returns showed little differences when arithmetic and geometric mean calculations served as the basis for the projections. Using annual returns on the DJIA and S&P for 1954 to 2007, 1-year-, 5-year-ahead, and 10-year-ahead forecasts were made based on 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-year histories based on both arithmetic and geometric averages. This ...

The Receipt and Antipoverty Effectiveness of Cash Income Maintenance Transfers : Differences

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Future Generations: A Prioritarian View

How should we take account of the interests of future generations? This question has great practical relevance. For example, it is front and center in arguments about global warming policy. Unfortunately, the question is doubly difficult-doubly, because it not merely implicates generic disputes about the structure of moral obligations (disputes between consequentialists and nonconsequentialists...