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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"bequests"”.
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Financing retirement consumption and bequests
… for financing either retirement consumption or bequests. Chapter 1 compares the use of Roth and tax-deferred retirement accounts for retirement consumption with the use of taxable accounts. Previously, economists have often assumed that retirement savings should be done in a tax-deferred …
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Essays on annuity valuation, bequests and Social Security
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Retirement income, bequests, and insurance : implications of mortality risk in a stochastic life cycle model
This thesis is composed of four studies on the role of annuities and life insurance in the portfolios of elderly households. It has long been known in the economics literature that annuities should be of substantial value in the portfolios of retired individuals. However, outside of private pension …
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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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Fertility And Economic Growth
… subsidy may reduce or may increase fertility if bequests are operative and has no net effect on fertility otherwise, and is most likely to speed up growth of per capita income. Depressing growth, a child rearing subsidy cannot raise fertility unless bequests are operative.;Chapter 2 compares …
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Accommodation for adults with intellectual disability: Exploring the lived experiences of ageing parent carers and the reasons behind their decision to continue to care in the family home
… vague, or non-existent other than financial bequests. Recommendations focused on improving the first and subsequent experiences in respite care by implementing strategies to improve the quality of care, perceived or real, provided in disability accommodation. Further recommendations include …
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A study of wills and will-making in the period 1500-1533 with special reference to the copy wills in the probate registers of the Archdeacon of Bedford 1489-1533
… property provide for those who seek to interpret bequests of both personalty and realty.
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
… and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the collectors, their activities and motivation in making such presentations. Using the interests and activities of the Quaker miller and …
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The picture of poverty : Cristoforo Moro and patronage of San Giobbe, Venice
… a wide range of sources including testamentary bequests, building and confraternity histories, and landholding policies, I examine how Moro transformed a site that was associated with social and spiritual abjection into a showcase of ducal power. In formulating a set of questions for Moro's work …
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Restructuring public higher education governance in West Virginia, 1969-1989: a policy study
… The political legacy and challenging cultural bequests of the Board were profiled. A political epitaph for the Regents included the following inscriptions. The governance structure of higher education in the great state of West Virginia is what the governor, the legislature, the campus …
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Achieving Public Long-Term Care Insurance Through Social Security Wealth: Microsimulation for the US Case
… income as co-payment, leaving no possibility for bequests. Because there is no middle ground between costly private insurance and Medicaid, many middle-income seniors end up on Medicaid, sometimes after having sheltered assets away, thus burdening taxpayers with the cost of their care. Expanding …
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Free Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaican Economy and Society 1760-1834
… death, precipitating more generous inheritance bequests for women and a greater role given to wives and daughters—both white women, and those of mixed-race descent—in tropical commerce. Additionally, as slave ownership was not limited by gender or race, free women of all races took part in the …
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Essays on food security
… explicitly controls for endogeneity using bequests and type of energy used for cooking as instrumental variables. I find that land degradation reduces agricultural value by 4 percent, which is smaller than when endogeneity is not accounted for. I also generate a differential impacts map …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… between private and public collecting through bequests and long-term loans, demonstrating the degree to which the acquisition and display of objects was being constantly reshaped by global networks of collectors, donors, dealers and curators. Cumulatively, these seven chapters seek to …
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Optimal taxation with endogenous wages
… improve the child's wage, or through financial bequests. I derive optimal linear tax formulas as functions of estimable sufficient statistics, robust to underlying heterogeneities in preferences. It is in general not optimal to make education expenses fully tax deductible. I also show how to …
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The aldermen of Norwich, 1461-1509: a study of a civic elite.
… expressions of personal belief, charitable bequests, and guild participation. A study of the aldermen's wills (65 of which survive in their entirety) forms the basis for chapters five through seven. A wide range of original evidence is used for the study. Civic assembly records, court rolls, …
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Psychological well-being and the charitable bequest decision
There are currently 168,000 charities registered in England and Wales who in 2017 raised a combined £75.35 billion (Hillier, 2018), yet less than £3 billion of this total was donated from gifts in wills (Smee & Ford, 2018). At present, only 6.3 per cent of people in the UK leave a bequest to …
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El sector fundacional en España : la información económico-financiera. Un modelo para evaluar la eficiencia en el logro de sus fines.
… through government grants or donations and bequests from private sources. Therefore, donors and the general public demand more and more transparency of economic and financial information, and more control mechanisms from foundations as from all other non-profit organisations, so as to ensure …
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660
In recent years, urban historians have established that the period from 1560 to 1660 was a key era for London’s development from a relatively small European urban centre into a large dynamic global capital. This dissertation attempts to intervene in London scholarship by drawing attention to the …