Britain and Germany, like much of the Western world have concerns about the ageing of the population and early exit of older workers from the labour market. Policy debates have focused on direct changes to retirement ages and incentives to encourage greater pension saving. Less attention has...

The 1985/86 Survey of Personal Incomes is used to estimate the impact of tax deductibility on giving by covenant. Estimates are based on two models: a generalized Tobit model, and Reece and Zieschang's (1985) model that allows for a nonlinear budget constraint. The results suggest that the...

This study investigates dynamic patterns of obesity persistence and identifies the determinants of obesity-spell exits and re-entries. We utilize longitudinal data from the NLSY79 covering the period 1985–2010. Non-parametric techniques are applied to investigate the relationship between exit...