I consider the saving and investment decisions of American and Italian consumers in a lifecycle model with temptation preferences. Comparing the choices with and without Social Security protection, I show that savings are postponed, less wealth is accumulated, and the portfolio share held in equities at retirement is larger with Social Security. Social Security distorts the decisions of agents ...

In sequential majority voting, preferences are aggregated by a sequence of pairwise comparisons (also called an agenda) between candidates. The result of each comparison is determined by a weighted majority vote between the agents. In this paper we consider the situation where the agents may not have revealed all their preferences. This is common in reallife settings, due to privacy issues or a...

What is the political legacy of violent conflict? I present evidence for a link from past violence to increased political engagement among excombatants. The evidence comes from northern Uganda, where rebel recruitment generated quasiexperimental variation in who was conscripted by abduction. Survey data suggest that abduction leads to substantial increases in voting and community leadership, la...

The study aims to explore the potential of extracurricular activities (ECAs) in enhancing English learning among Vietnamese higher education students, given government’s emphasis on language reforms. In Southwest Vietnam, a comprehensive survey consisting 20 questions was carried out 1,032 students at establishment. aim ascertain their favored ECAs and how students’ demographic details, particu...

The feasibility study on fully automatic high quality translation was held in 1971 under the auspices of the Linguistics Research Center of The University of Texas at Austin with support from KAFB. The participants were twenty experts in the areas of linguistics and computer software, representing a wide range of opinions on the feasibility of MT. Among the recommendations made in the report on...

Successful negotiation depends on understanding and responding to participants’ needs. Many negotiation approaches assume identical needs (e.g., minimizing costs) and do not take into account other preferences of the participants. However, preferences play a crucial role in the outcome of negotiations. Accordingly, we propose a negotiation framework where producer agents learn the preferences o...