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Family policies : what does the standard endogenous fertility model tell us ?
Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008
standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present paper shows that this result is still valid but that subsidizing … exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … discussed in the light of family policies implemented in China and Sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750938
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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited
Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009
annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784116
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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade
Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009
While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … structures will end up with the same long-run age structure when fertility and mortality laws are converging, which requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738783
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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited
Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009
annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738987
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Growth vs level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms
Boucekkine, Raouf; Martínez, Blanca; Ruiz-Tamarit, Ramon - HAL - 2011
We study the impact of demographic change on economic short and long-term dynamics in an enlarged Lucas-Uzawa model with intratemporal altruism. Demographics are summarized by population growth rate and initial size. In contrast to the existing literature, the long-run level effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325720
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Prevention against equality?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012
Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929082
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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930209
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Actuarial risk assessment of expected fatalities attributable to carbon capture and storage in 2050
Ha-Duong, Minh; Loisel, Rodica - HAL - 2011
This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402095
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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013
egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738814
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The public economics of increasing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012
One of the greatest success stories in our societies is that people are living longer, life expectancy at birth being now above 80 years. Whereas the lengthening of life opens huge opportunities for individuals if extra years are spent in prosperity and good health, it is however often regarded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739055