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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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How Does Progressivity Affect the Tax Cut Multiplier?
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the targeting of personal income tax cuts affect the output multiplier? This paper provides quantitative evidence using a heterogeneous‐agent New‐Keynesian model calibrated to match US distributions of income, wealth, marginal tax rates, and marginal propensities to consume.
Christian Gillitzer
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“Welfare Gains and Annuities Demand” [PDF]
This paper extends the annuity demand theory, giving new reasons for the small annuities demand. Regarding this problem, Yaari (1965) claims, under the condition that no one can die in debt, that a selfish consumer will fully annuitized her savings ...
Sanchez-Romero, Miguel
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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On Gamma-Gompertz-Makeham Assurances and Life Annuities
Austrian Journal of StatisticsWe focus on the gamma-Gompertz-Makeham model, and derive useful structural properties for this mortality model. We provide the basic properties like moments, remaining life expectancy, single life annuity, among many others, in closed form, and so it ...
Fredy Castellares +2 more
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Mutual fund director compensation
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We examine director compensation using a large sample of hand‐compiled U.S. mutual fund data. We find that director compensation is positively correlated with observable productive characteristics—workload, experience, and demographics—that capture the benefits from the directors’ monitoring effort.
John Adams +2 more
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On annuities under random rates of interest [PDF]
In the article we consider accumulated values of annuities-certain with yearly payments with independent random interest rates. We focus on general annuities with payments varying in arithmetic and geometric progression which are important basic varying ...
Aleksander Weron +2 more
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Demand for Life Annuities: a Brazilian Perspective [PDF]
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2012 Because pension plans have been marketed using outdated technical premises, Brazilian insurance companies find themselves required to identify additional resources to ensure their ability to meet future benefit payments obligations. When calculating the
Thalita Amorim Vaz +2 more
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Ratio Mathematica, 2015 This paper proposes an expression of the value of an annuity with payments of 1 unit each when the interest rate is random. In order to attain this objective, we proceed on the assumption that the non-central moments of the capitalization factor are ...
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +2 more
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Gray Divorce After 50: A Scoping Review of Antecedents, Consequences, and Family‐Theoretical Gaps
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gray divorce, marital dissolution at Age 50 and older, has become an increasingly important family transition with implications for later‐life kinship, economic security, intergenerational ties, and postmarital adjustment. This scoping review maps antecedents, outcomes, moderators, and family‐theory gaps across 25 empirical studies published ...
Lawrence E. Ugwu +2 more
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