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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877689
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Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2014
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877756
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk
Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - CESifo - 2013
Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...
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Demographic Change and Public Sector Budgets in a Federal System
Hofmann, Michael; Kempkes, Gerhard; Seitz, Helmut - CESifo - 2008
government have to carry an additional burden due to ageing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013041
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Ageing Municipalities, Gerontocracy and Fiscal Competition
Montén, Anna; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
We develop a simple model of fiscal competition among ageing municipalities. When ageing advances, gerontocracies and … for the elderly. Thissubstitution process does not only depend on the ageing itself but also on crowding effects and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181306
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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets: The Case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405965
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Ageing and Productivity Growth: Are there Macro-level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … paper concludes with simulations for a number of OECD countries showing that the impact of projected ageing of the labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406417
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Bio-Demographic and Health Aspects of Ageing in the EU
Herce, José A.; Ahn, Namkee; Génova, Ricard; Pereira, … - CESifo - 2003
research project called AGIR. The project tries to establish facts and evidence on the ageing process in EU countries and … relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094195
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Ageing and Growth in the Small Open Economy
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2006
We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094204
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Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing
Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2007
We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlapping-generations model is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortality process. Individual agents choose their optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094360