Description: There are many investigations probing the relationship between health outcomes [such as mortality rate, fertility rate] and economic variables [such as rise in income] and other variables [such as level of education, availability of clean water]. Usually, these results are demonstrated using data from countries where economic conditions are improving over time along with health outcomes. This paper studies the links between health risks and the current economic conditions in Mexico where general mortality conditions improved during the period 1980-2000 but income fell.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods upon which the computations of policy reserves and related annual statement terms for the family policy issued by the company with which the author is connected are based. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 26.

Description: The birthday rule is used to determine whether the father's or the mother's insurer is liable for a child's medical bills, where the liability rests with the insurer of the parent whose birthday falls in the first half of the year. It is assumed that the odds are even that the liable insurer will be the mother's, vs. the father's. This paper demonstrates how the key determinant of whether this assumption is valid is the distribution of the difference in spouses' ages.

Description: This paper describes a method to determine confidence intervals for trend involving resampling - with replacement but without random numbers - of numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and the estimating of confidence intervals for trend in average size major medical claims.

Description: This report presents the results of a study on morbidity experience of the New York Life. Since the major medical programs of the New York Life have been fairly typical of the programs offered by insurance companies during the 1950's, it was determinedt that the results of this morbidity study, as well as the steps taken in developing a new morbidity table, would be of interest. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1963, Vol. 15, Pt. 1, No. 42.

Description: This paper describes the process and methodology undertaken for the 1971 Canadian census and the life tables and geocoding which are created from the census.

Description: This paper proposes a new interpretation of probability, the quantum interpretation of probability, so named because it adapts certain of the principles of quantum mechanics. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: Sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Research Expanding Boundaries Pool, this report examines an encompassing method to allocating economic capital in insurance conglomerates. Authored by Edward Furman, Yisub Kye, and Jianxi Su, the plan put forth unifies the centralized top-down and the detail-oriented bottom-up approaches

Description: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a simplified method of calculating adjusted benefit reserves for any line of life or health insurance. Specific examples are applied to individual hospital and major medical insurance. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1973 Vol. 25 Pt. 1 No. 73

Description: This paper presents ratemaking for nonparticipating life insurance including the relationship between gross premiums and profit margins, suitable assumptions, a technique for evaluating in force business and demonstrating results using the methods. The paper is followed by a discussion. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.