Regression analysis can imply a broader range of techniques that ordinarily appreciated. Statisticians commonly define regression so that the goal is to understand “as far as possible with the available data how the the conditional distribution of some response y varies across subpopulations determined by the possible values of the predictor or predictors” ( Cook and Weisberg, 1999: 27). For ex...

The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure poor retirees against medical expenses. However, it is the rich who are most likely to live long and face expensive medical conditions when very old. We estimate a rich structural model of savings and endogenous medical spending with heterogeneous agents, and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers ...

In this paper we characterize, both theoretically and quantiatively, the optimal mix of progressive income taxes and education subsidies in a model with endogeous human capital formation, borrowing constraints and income risk.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid growth in the expansion of consumer credit. Figures for the U.K, for example, show that in 1988 consumer credit represented just 50% of national income, compared with 70% in 2001. This paper looks at some of the issues that now need addressing following this expansion in credit, particularly how it may have affected families on low incomes. 1 Experian Cen...

Among the impoverished population of coastal Kenya, there is a rapidly growing group of young single mothers who suffer from adverse health outcomes, incomplete schooling, social ostracism by their communities, and economic hardship. To address this problem, in 2008 the Single Mothers Program (SMP) selected a group of vulnerable single mothers, provided them with basic relief and education, equ...

The Price of Warm Glow This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the “volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to vary bet...

Abstract Background Access to high quality continuing professional development (CPD) is necessary for healthcare professionals retain competency within the ever-evolving worlds of medicine and health. Most low- middle-income countries, including Rwanda, have a critical shortage limited access CPD opportunities. This study scoped literature using review articles related use information communica...

Men in the United States with family incomes in the top 5 percent of the distribution in 1980 had about 25 percent longer to live than did those in the bottom 5 percent. Proportional increases in income are associated with equal proportional decreases in mortality throughout the income distribution. I discuss possible reasons for this gradient and ask whether it calls for the redistribution of ...

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We ask whether women’s decisions to be in the workforce may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women’s (or families’) utility functions. In this model, the entry of some women into paid employment can spur the entry of other women, ind...