Using vignettes to improve understanding of Social Security and annuities

Social Security, Life Insurance and Annuities for Families

In this paper we ask whether some aspects of social security, namely its role as providing insurance against uncertain life spans is welfare enhancing. We pose and calibrate models with agents differing in age, sex and marital histories where we compare the implications of different social security policies under a variety of market structures. We find no support for social security policies fo...

Using vignettes to improve cross- population comparability of health surveys: concepts, design, and evaluation techniques

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

synthesis of amido alkylnaphthols using nano-magnetic particles and surfactants

we used dbsa and nano-magnetic for the synthesis of amido alkylnaphtols.

Comments on: ‘‘Hong and Rı́os-Rull’s ‘Social security, life insurance and annuities for families’’’

When formulating life-cycle models in economics, the economic profession has focused on restrictions on theory from empirical data on consumption, wealth, and leisure. This has yielded substantial progress. However, central aspects of these models must still be regarded as controversial. Two such open questions are how to model families and how to model and measure within-family altruism. The b...