We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior …. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month increments per year of birth for cohorts … with the FRA. Results on self-reported retirement and exit from employment are less clear-cut, but go in the same direction …

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 longevity, the utilitarian social optimum can be decentralized with type … the production of longevity. …

We use the theory of rationalizable choices to study the survival and the extinction of types (or traits) in … the most …fit types survive) and interactivity (i.e. a withdrawal of types a effects the survival of other types). Those …

Context: The significant survival benefit of chemotherapy over best supportive care for locally advanced and metastatic … empirically examines, in real-life practise and using multiple proxies, the impact of health care expenditures on overall survival … resources used, the costs of treatment and survival data were retrospectively collected from the records of 175 patients treated …

adds value to innovative French companies in terms of increasing their survival time. To this end, we use a hand … compare the survival rates of venture capital backed and non-venture capital backed companies. We develop two sets of … backed companies have a lower survival rate than non-venture capital backed companies and have a higher probability of being …

Using a sample of 212 IPOs, this paper analyzes the impact of venture capital involvement on the survival time of … French IPOs. We find that the ability of venture capitalists to improve the survival of companies is related to the duration …