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Cognition and Wealth: The Importance of Probabilistic Thinking
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2001-06)
This paper utilizes a large set of subjective probability questions from the Health and Retirement Survey to construct an index measuring the precision of probabilistic beliefs (PPB) and relates this index to household ...
Environment, Access to Health Care, and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival Among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa, 1989–94
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Some maintain that environmental factors are unimportant for infant and child survival once mother's education and other characteristics have been taken into account. However, an analysis of survival of African and Coloured ...
Fertility and Family Life in an Indian Village
(1975)
The first author was a viting professor in the Department of Child Develoment, University of Baroda, Gujarat State, India. A long term study was undertaken of a sample of 66 families from four major casts. Including the ...
The Situation of Older Persons in Myanmar: Results from the 2012 Survey of Older Persons
(HelpAge International, 2013-03)
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the situation of older persons in Myanmar based on the first national survey of persons age 60 and older. Chapters examine population aging, social characteristics of older ...
The value of children to parents in the United States
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-06)
Multivariate explanation of the 1985–1990 and 1995–2000 destination choices of newly arrived immigrants in the United States: the beginning of a new trend?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-09)
This paper identifies the salient features in the 1985–1990 and 1995–2000 destination choices of newly arrived immigrants, and performs multivariate explanation of these choices, based on an application of a multinomial ...
The Future of Family Support for Thai Elderly: Views of the Populace
(Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, 2013-01)
Future cohorts of older Thais will have fewer and more dispersed children. This will result in a continuing decline in coresidence with children that has been the lynchpin of the traditional familial system of old age ...
Social Security, Retirement and Wealth: Theory and Implications
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-06)
The effect of Social Security rules on the age people choose to retire can be critical in evaluating proposed changes to those rules. This research derives a theory of retirement that views retirement as a special type ...
Who Becomes a Stockholder? Expectations, Subjective Uncertainty, and Asset Allocation
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-04)
We develop a model of portfolio selection with subjective uncertainty and learning in order to explain why some people hold stocks while others don’t. We model heterogeneity in information directly, which is an alternative ...
From sweet potatoes to God Almighty: Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog
(American Ethnologist, 2007-08)
Recognized as a principle figure in ecological anthropology, Roy Rappaport is best known for Pigs for the Ancestors (1968). His work in the anthropology of religion has received less attention. Least acknowledged is ...