effects of public pensions and credit rationing. These implications are not much affected by whether altruism is assumed or …

characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U …

Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find …. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children …

Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years … well-informed about pensions. However, there are many reasons to believe that individuals may not be well-informed due to … the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

design of health insurance, pensions, and unemployment benefits programs. Going forward, there a few general principles that …