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The economics of long-term care: a survey

CREMER, Helmuth; PESTIEAU, Pierre; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

This paper surveys recent theoretical economic research on long term care (LTC). LTC differs from health care: it is about nursing; it is mostly provided by unpaid caregivers (mainly spouses and children), whereas both the market and the State play a modest role. The future of LTC appears to be...

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Markets for Public and Private Health Care: Redistribution Arguments for a Mixed System.

Marchand, M.; Schroyen, F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2001

Should health care provision be public, private, or both? We look at this question in a setting where people differ in their earnings capacity and express an inelastic demand for health care. We assume that illness reduces a person's health status when not receiving immediate treatment.

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Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: a mean and variance approach

LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can influence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the risks involved in the lotteries of life to be chosen. For that purpose, we develop a two-period...

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Opportunity analysis of newborn screening programs

HERRERO, Carmen; MORENO-TERNERO, Juan D. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

There exist congenital diseases that reduce newborns' potential opportunities. This reduction is sometimes alleviated if the congenital disease is early detected thanks to a newborn screening program. We propose an outcome measurement of newborn screening programs based on the opportunity gains...

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Optimal linear taxation under endogenous longevity

LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PESTIEAU, Pierre; PONTHIÈRE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

This paper studies the optimal linear tax-transfer policy in an economy where agents differ in productivity and in genetic background, and where longevity depends on health spending and genes. It is shown that, if agents internalize imperfectly the impact of genes and health spending on...

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Aging society, health and the environment

Balestra, Carlotta; DOTTORI, Davide - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

Both environmental quality and health care expenditure are determinants of health and life expectancy, but the support for them appears to be different according to the electors' age, with a relatively larger support for health expenditure among the elderly as it is generally effective on a...

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Wives, husbands and wheelchairs : Optimal tax policy under gender-specific health

LEROUX, Marie - Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

We study the optimal taxation problem in an economy composed of two-person households (men and women), where agents … decentralized by means of lump sum transfers from men to women, because women exhibit a higher disability-free life expectancy than …

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Utilitarianism and unequal longevities : A remedy?

LEROUX, Marie - Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010

This paper re-examines a counterintuitive corollary of utilitarianism under unequal longevities: the tendency to redistribute resources from short-lived towards long-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation. It is shown that this corollary prevails not only under time-additive...

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‘The child is father of the man’: implications for the demographic transition

DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, Omar - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth … regime, life expectancy and fertility move in opposite directions. The dynamics display the key features of the demographic …

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The macroeconomics of PAYG pension schemes in an aging society

ARTIGE, Lionel; CAVENAILE, Laurent; PESTIEAU, Pierre - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

-as-you-go pension systems when population ages. When the fertility rate decreases or longevity rises, it is shown that a shift from …

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