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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 …

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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

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

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 …

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Reframing Sacred Values

Atran, Scott; Axelrod, Robert - HAL - 2008

Sacred values differ from material or instrumental values in that they incorporate moral beliefs that drive action in ways dissociated from prospects for success. Across the world, people believe that devotion to essential or core values – such as the welfare of their family and country, or...

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Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country'S H-Index

FARHADI, MARYAM; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; … - HAL - 2013

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country's scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of...

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Agriculture

Battesti, Vincent; Richards, Alan R. - HAL - 2004

Introduction :Du latin agricultura (ager, champs et cultura, culture), l'agriculture réfère au processus par lesquels des aliments sont cultivés et récoltés. Cela concerne aussi le secteur de l'économie dédié à l'alimentation récoltée.La culture du sol pour la production de récolte...

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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