The one universal safety net -- and a modest one at that -- and yet the main source of purchasing power for millions of aging Americans.
Mrs Merkel's hasty abandonment of her government's first energy policy, which was to squeeze more power out of ageing nuclear plants, hurt her credibility.
To illustrate how crystallized intelligence can operate, Gene D. Cohen, a founder of the field of geriatric psychiatry, related a story about his in-laws from his book "The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain".
What Paluck observed during her time in Rwanda wasn't the power of age-old hatreds — Hutus and Tutsis had always had stereotyped ideas about one another — but of quickly shifting social norms.
Her performances in these films, and in others of the era, by Samuel Fuller and Gerd Oswald — like Joan Crawford's, in films of the forties and fifties by Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, and Robert Aldrich — suggest the power of age-honest casting over the commercial lure of the ingenue.
It is useful to compare the explanatory power of age to gender and household attributes.
The low explanatory power of age contrasts with the ability of household characteristics to account for variation in paid employment.
Thus, all discussion of the explanatory power of age is based on the partial R2 attributable to age in the model.
Given that time variation pattern of age and time trend are similar (one-by-one linear increase) one could think that the within transformation would lessen the identification power of age against a simple time trend described above.
To compare the explanatory power of age with other child and household attributes, we regress outcomes (we choose paid employment, school attendance, and idle) on dummy variables for age, gender, and household.
