From Transfers to Individual Responsibility: Implications for Savings and Capital Accumulation in Taiwan and the United States

A demographically realistic model incorporating life cycle saving motives is used to simulate effects of changing a transfer-based old-age support to a funded system, applied to the cases of Taiwan an

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Uxorilocal Marriage as a Strategy for Heirship in a Patrilineal Society: Evidence from Household Registers in early 20th-Century Taiwan

The History of the Family Abstract In pre-industrial Taiwan, an uxorilocal marriage, in which a man moved in with his bride’s family, was a familial strategy used to continue family lineage and to enhan

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