Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania

In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can provide her with old age security, single females living outside the village are more likely to marry into the village. Using a natural experimental setting, provided by the longitudinal household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania for the period from 1991 to 2004, during which several villages that initially banned a widow's land inheritance removed this discrimination, this study provides evidence in support of this view, whereby altering a customary land inheritance rules in a village in favor of widows increased the probability of males marrying in that village. This finding suggests that providing rural women with old age protection (e.g., insurance, livelihood protection) has remarkable spatial and temporal welfare effects by influencing their decision to marry.

The problem of old age pensions in industry, an up-to-date summary of the facts and figures developed in the further study of old age pensions.

Mode of access: Internet.

Old age security reform in China /

Mode of access: Internet.

Administration of medical care; problems and issues, based on an analysis of the medical-dental care program for the recipients of old-age assistance in the state of Washington, 1941-1945.

Mode of access: Internet.

Old age in New York city; an analysis of some problems of the aged, based on 3,106 requests for information about health and welfare services,

"First printing."

OAA profile: the old age assistance client in Chicago

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the royal commission on the aged poor : appointed to consider whether any alterations in the system of poor law relief are desirable, in the case of persons whose destitution is occasioned by incapacity for work resulting from old age, or whether assistance could otherwise be afforded in those cases.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Miscellaneous publications on old age pensions in agriculture, United States]

Mode of access: Internet.

Laou-seng-urh, or, "An heir in his old age." A Chinese drama.

"A brief view of the Chinese drama, and of their theatrical exhibitions": xlix p.

Old age pensions in Colorado /

"January, 1948."

Old age income assurance ; a compendium of papers on problems and policy issues in the public and private pension sytem, submitted to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy of the Joint Economic Committee /

At head of title: 90th Congress, 1st session. Joint committee print.

The political construction of old age as reflected in online discussions

The present paper examines the political construction of ageing and conflicts between generations. The process of construction is driven not merely by institutional actors and opinion leaders in the media, but also by citizens who talk to each other about politics. In my paper I have focused on the latter by observing online discussions that appear on the political forum Index.hu. Disagreement between old people’ and ‘young people’ evolved mainly about the pension system, thus the examination of ageing constructions is embedded in this context. In spite of its numerous limits, the method used seems to be suitable for providing hypotheses for further research. In the first part of the study I present the applied theoretical approach in which the concept of stereotype is connected with the concept of social construction. After that I focus on investigating the activity, origin and contents of the stereotypes that influence the construction of ageing. In the third part of the study the components of the constructions are demonstrated.