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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Bequest"”.
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Psychological well-being and the charitable bequest decision
… only 6.3 per cent of people in the UK leave a bequest to charities in their will (Smee & Ford 2019) despite 70 per cent of people supporting a charity during their lifetime (Dauncey 2005). Legacy income is estimated to rise to £5.9 billion by 2045 (Legacy Foresight, 2019), yet despite the …
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ISLAMIC ESTATE PLANNING: ANALYSING THE MALAYSIAN PERCEPTIONS ON WASIYYAH (WILL) AND BEQUEST PRACTICES
… conceptual and mechanistic framework of faraid, bequest and gift (hibah). In Islam, there is no limitation on the transfers of wealth during the lifetime, but the disposal of estates upon the death is strictly subject to faraid and bequest rules. The salient feature of faraid implies that …
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Wealth management and divorce: how stress adjustment affects the accumulation, management and distribution of wealth
… proportion of assets in risk investments, and bequest intentions. Using data from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan Center for Social Research, exponential fractional regression models (EFRM) were specified to examine changes in savings behaviors and risky asset …
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Optimal asset allocation and annuitisation in a defined contribution pension scheme
… discounted utility from future consumption and bequest (if the pensioner has a bequest motive) is maximised. We develop and solve two models for the member of a defined contribution pension scheme in the post–retirement period. The first one is a two assets model with stochastic inflation. We …
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Retirement income, bequests, and insurance : implications of mortality risk in a stochastic life cycle model
… resources. It also finds that the presence of bequest motives has no effect on the disposition of definer.'. contribution plan assets. The finding that bequest motives do not affect marginal annuity decisions is in contrast to some of the previous literature. In particular, previous research …
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Essays on annuitization and housing choice
… 2 extends the theory of annuitization with no bequest motive in two directions. First, we derive sufficient conditions, in a more general setting than Yaari (1965), under which complete annuitization is optimal, and weaker conditions under which partial annuitization is better than zero …
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Three essays on special donation types
… with special donation types such as 1) bequests, 2) lifetime donations to specific cause types, or 3) the intersection of bequests and lifetime donations to specific cause types. This dissertation provides new information addressing all three of these areas. Essay 1 explores the …
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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty
… goods, a subsistence level, money and a bequest function.
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
… most important results show that factors such as bequest motives, tract size, absentee status, and environmental preferences influence the bid acceptance decision for landowners in the sample.
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Essays on Retirement Behavior during the Housing Boom and Bust
… take into account housing wealth change in the bequest motive component. </p> <p>Both the baseline and modified models match the labor-force participation well and capture the high exit rate at the Medicare age. The coefficient of unknown proportional housing wealth in the baseline model …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics
… that when parents are not restricted in their bequest decisions, the only type of inefficiency that may arise in the competitive equilibrium is dynamic inefficiency, either in the form of under- and over-accumulation. Introducing childcare subsidies or estate tax creates short-run distortions, …
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Braids of Song Gwead y Gân
… essays and poems to dramatic monologues. The bequest of a handwritten opera manuscript begins the journey, and three musicians from the past each speak in dramatic monologue: Dr Joseph Parry, Dr Daniel Protheroe, and Marie Novello. The fourth narrative is my own in ysgrif (essay/composition): …
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Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
… elements of the Lectureship - Robert Boyle's bequest, the Trustees, the Lecturers, and the Sermons - cannot be conflated into a single historical unit. Therefore, throughout this study, emphasis is placed on the contingent and singular behaviour of individuals located within an ecclesiastical …
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The evolution of the medical professions in eighteenth-century Ireland: An institutional perspective
… despite being the beneficiaries of a generous bequest from Sir Patrick Dun in 1711 to provide medical chairs in Dublin, the physicians displayed an inertia during the eighteenth century that was not in keeping with the developments that occurred in the contemporary Dublin medical world. The …
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How to Tell a Story: Mark Twain and the Short Story Genre
… two of Twain's short stories—"The $30,000 Bequest" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"—in relation to the compositional theories of the first major short story theorist: Edgar Allan Poe. This chapter shows how these two Twain stories abide by Poe's rules concerning unity of effect. …
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Essays on Building Growth From Ideas
… correlation patterns, and shows that progressive bequest taxation can reduce this misallocation.
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
… inheriting a reference level of consumption and bequest from the previous generation. These agents make education choices in part to avoid losses relative to reference consumption in the first and second periods of their lives. Agents with high inherited reference consumption choose high levels …
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The didactic utilization of the Bible and Midrash in the plays of Zalman Aaron Lison
… the use of archival material - from Lison's bequest that the family so kindly allowed access to, as well as semistructured qualitative interviews with Lison's son, Dr. Michael Uson, and two of Lison's past students, who currently live in Israel. All the above concurred my hypothesis of the …
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Optimal taxation with endogenous wages
… considers dynamic optimal income, education, and bequest taxes in a Barro- Becker dynastic setup. Each generation is subject to idiosyncratic preference and productivity shocks. Parents can transfer resources to their children either through education investments, which improve the child's wage, …
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The Money of Qaroon and the Patience of Ayoub: Women and Land in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement Scheme
… challenged by women landholders’ plans to bequest property mostly to their sons. The study also highlights the importance of relying on site-specific and locally relevant scientific knowledge for farming marginal lands, which is common to many parts of the world due to population pressures. …
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