Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd when needy wildlife happens do you run w...

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies. In order to measure the social preferences of local decision makers, we conducted field experiments which simulated the selection of needy beneficiaries for welfare schemes. While potential recipients with less land were clearly favoured, decision maker...

Filial piety, though diminishing in influence, remains the most important value regulating the behaviour of children towards their elderly parents and relatives in Asian Chinese communities and communities influenced by Chinese culture. Long-term care policies in Asian Chinese communities must recognise the changes that have taken place in the practice of filial piety, though neither a complete...

C. One-third of the world’s people, living in the developing nations, suffer serious hunger and malnutrition and live in fear of famine. The United States has 6% of the world’s population but consumes 40% of the world’s resources. As a nation we waste more of the earth’s products than many poor countries have for their entire sustenance. More money is spent annually on the average American dog ...

We examine whether there is discernable variation in the matriculation patterns of lowincome students at public flagship institutions around changes in institutional financial-aid policies that target resident, low-income students with need-based aid. Overall, our results suggests that need is not being met on the extensive margin and that enrollment levels actually fall with the introduction o...

Even under the 1950 amendments to the Social Security Act, there are many aged persons in this country who are not able to qualify for benefits under the old-age and survivors insurance program. Some of them, as their opportunities for employment and ability to work decline, are forced to apply for oldage assistance. Before the amendments, of course, the number of such persons tvas greater. The...

Much attention has been given to the large increases in safety net spending during the Great Recession. We examine the relationship between poverty, the safety net, and business cycles historically and test whether there has been a significant change in this relationship. We find that post–welfare reform, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families did not respond during the Great Recession and ext...

In different treatments of an intergenerational common resource experiment, monetary payoff maximization by each generation causes either negative or positive externalities for future generations. Two behavioral types have been observed previously in single generation games: equity motivated individuals enjoy giving to the needy and taking from (not giving to) the prosperous, while warm glow al...

We investigate the factors that contribute to participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) and the effects of such participation on self-assessed health (SAH). Our estimation approach consists of an endogenous switching ordered probability model, using the copula approach, for a sample of current and former Temporary Assistance ...

Because of the nature of the program, all persons receiving old-age assistance have two characteristics in common. They must be aged 65 or over, and they must be “needy” under the definition of the State from which they receive assistance. Detailed information about the recipients-their requirements, income, resources, and social characteristics-were obtained in a nationwide study conducted in ...