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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
Continuous longevity improvements and population ageing have led countries to modify national public pension schemes by increasing the standard and early retirement ages in a discretionary, scheduled, or automatic way, and by making it harder for people to retire prematurely. To this end,...
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Philosphers and Economists Can Agree on the Intergenerational Discount Rate and Climate Policy Paths
Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; Groom, Ben - 2022
The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...
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Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students : Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment
Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodriguez, Julio - 2021
track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and … reliability, and unnecessarily place students from under-represented groups into remedial courses. While recent research has shown … that tracking can have positive effects on student learning, inaccurate placement has consequences: students face …
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