decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …, couples only, living with their married children, living with their unmarried children, and other. There is more elderly …

insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as children and the aged are considered. The paper will look at the United … States, Canada, and Europe, and Chinese Taipei-Taiwan using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and will assess the …

-being of the aged in Taiwan and eight other countries - the United States, Japan, Australia, Poland, Finland, Germany, Hungary … relative economic status of the aged in each country. This issue is explored more thoroughly in Taiwan, where the (admittedly …

, Russia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States) for three different years. Relative performance of each distribution …

dort die vier Schwellenländer Südkorea, Taiwan, Hongkong und Singapur, die im folgenden als asiatische NICs (für Newly …

, Singapore and Taiwan. Economically, the analysis is based on notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …