[eng] Freedom of Choice in the Time-Income Curve Context: A Quantification Test, . by Jérôme Wittwer.. . The freedom of choice available to an agent in the time-income context appears to provide a more convincing definition of the standard of living than classic definitions. By extending a...

[eng] Development of the Cost of Children with the Household Budget: Some Results, . by Jérôme Wittwer.. . The cost of children, such as it is perceived by traditionally estimated equivalence scales, is supposed not to be dependent on the standard of living of households (aside from via the...

[fre] L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les transferts économiques liés à la mise en œuvre contentieuse de l’obligation alimentaire ascendante dans le financement de la dépendance des personnes âgées. Dans un premier temps, la mise en œuvre concrète de ce dispositif est...

This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...

In a partial equilibrium framework, Sharkey and Sibley [1993] show paradoxally that all redistributive optimal two-part pricings are sustainable. They also suggest the extension of their main result to nonlinear pricing. In this paper, it is shown that in fact their result doesn't extend...

This paper is based on a randomized experiment conducted in order to understand the low takeup rate of a complementary health-insurance voucher program for the poorest in France. We explore two of the main hypotheses put forward to explain low enrollment: difficulties in accessing information...