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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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Timing is Everything : Evidence from College Major Decisions

Patterson, Richard - 2019

significantly influenced by the timing of their experiences. Using administrative data, we study whether the order in which students … Academy in which students are randomly assigned to certain courses either during or after the semester in which they are … required to select their college major. We find that when students are assigned to a course in the same semester as they select …

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