In everyday life, many decisions are made, from personal and individual issues to major issues. In most decision …, suggest one to the Decision Maker (DM), and decision analysis is necessary to arrive at an applicable solution. The process of … providing a more powerful tool for decision support. Each method and its improvement are illustrated with a numerical example. …

This paper examines the role of the health gradient the positive correlation between household income and health in …-specific health gradients and find their slope increases with age, but declines among retired workers. We then estimate a variety of … parametric and semi-parametric duration models and find that workers’ position relative to the agegroup-specific health gradient …