My ex-wife called and asked if I would give her part of my liver. I asked if she could wait until I died. She said that would be too late. I was in good health, and she needed a liver transplant this year. “Please, Frank,” she said, “I’m not asking you to decide right now. Just take the blood test to see if we’re compatible.” “Marie,” I said, “20 years of marriage proved that we are not compati...

In the Netherlands people with low income are entitled to receive legal aid. In almost every big city in the Netherlands centres for delivering this legal aid are present. Currently these centres are reformed into a Legal Services Counter (Het Juridisch Loket). This reform process has several aims, including improving accessibility, improving the quality and standardisation of legal aid through...

This article analyzes several proposals to build work incentives into the U.S. welfare system. It concludes that the most cost effective way to do that is to offer a work subsidy to all low-income single parents—in other words, to simply pay them for working in the labor market. This conclusion is based on a model of the labor force participation behavior of low-income single mothers that the a...

DuringWorld War I male French citizens in Cochinchina whom the colonial government had drafted to fight in Europe left their families behind in the colony.Through a complicated subsidies process, the government offered financial assistance to families impoverished by the draftee’s departure and the concomitant loss of income. Far from being a monolithic category, the colony’s poor white applica...