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Intergenerational transmission of the human capital: case of the heterogeneous families
Hlaimi, Stéphane - HAL - 2006
) by assuming that there are two groups of children: the elder and the juniors. We try to see how according to the elder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792161
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Legacy writing among the elderly: conceptual bases, dimensioning and a proposed scale for measuring motivations
Guillemot, Samuel; Urien, Bertrand - HAL - 2010
This article concerns a relatively unknown phenomenon in marketing that has become, however, extremely popular among older adults: legacy writing. While the writing of "ego-documents" has been the subject of many studies in gerontology, sociology and, above all, literature, research in marketing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004253
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Intergenerational correlation of domestic work: Does gender matter?
Solaz, Anne; Wolff, Francois-Charles - HAL - 2013
inequality. We study the possible correlation between the domestic time of parents and their young adult co-resident children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899796
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Efficiency and Acceptability of Climate Policies: Race Against the Lock-ins
Rozenberg, Julie; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Stéphane, Hallegatte - HAL - 2013
Policymakers have good reasons to prefer capital-based policies - such as CAFE standards or feebates programs - over a carbon price. A carbon price minimizes the discounted cost of a climate policy, but may result in existing capital being under-utilized or scrapped before its scheduled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721440
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The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term
Fall, El Hadji - HAL - 2006
We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750368
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Double Dividend with Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity
Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2005
This paper analyzes the double dividend and distributional issues within an overlapping generations models framework with involuntary unemployment. We characterize the necessary conditions for the obtention of a double dividend when the revenue of the environmental tax is recycled by a variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750747
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A non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models
Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Van, Cuong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2008
There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...
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Climate policies deserve a negative discount rate
Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2012
We defend a methodology of discounting, for the evaluation of the long-term effects of climate policies, which relies on a social welfare objective, against the view that the market rate of return should be used for that purpose. We also show that in the long run, the discount rate for such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821415
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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": For whom ? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - HAL - 2013
We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899533
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011
. The measure of inequality of educational opportunity is given by the share of the variance in test scores which is … (most of) continental Europe and Latin America than in Asia, Scandinavia and North America. It is uncorrelated with average … educational achievement and only weakly negatively correlated with per capita GDP. It correlates negatively with the share of …
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