This paper constructs a model of retirement and saving by two earner couples. The model includes three dimensions of behavior: the joint determination of retirement and saving; heterogeneity in time preference; and the interdependence of retirement decisions of husbands and wives. Estimation is based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study covering the period 1992 to 2000. When husba...

*Correspondence: Phil Husbands, Department of Informatics, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK e-mail: [email protected] This paper presents a general and fully dynamic embodied artificial neural system, which incrementally explores and learns motor behaviors through an integrated combination of chaotic search and reflex learni...

Males sometimes harm their mates as they seek to maximise the number of offspring they sire. But are females really suffering or do the benefits of having sons that inherit their father's manipulative traits make up for the costs? Three recent studies provide the first hard data addressing this issue, but they differ in their conclusions.

BACKGROUND The role of husbands in maternal health is often overlooked by health programmes in developing countries and is an under-researched area of study globally. This study examines the role of husbands in maternity care and safe childbirth, their perceptions of the needs of women and children, the factors which influence or discourage their participation, and how women feel about male inv...

" Whenever the writer sees the poor anaemic, brokendown victim of many miscarriages, he cannot help but feel that, if the laws of the Damiantina River savages [performing artificial hypospadias] were enforced on their husbands, it would be a blessing to the poor women without materially injuring the husbands, who, in case of need of a re-establishment of the functions of procreation, might be f...

HIV/AIDS is a disease that still feared by society because it cannot be cured, there no vaccine to prevent transmission, stigma and discrimination are very high. During the Covid-19 pandemic, cases of were covered up so when people took HIV tests, seen soaring. The study was conducted analyze knowledge about husband's support in carrying out VCT on pregnant women Poh Bergong Village, Working Ar...

I examine the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I analyze the large Swedish tax reform of 1990–1991 and find that in response to a compensated fall in one spouse's tax rate, each spouse's earnings rise. I compare these re...