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and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …
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We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of well-being among … Indonesian men. We explore the extent to which height captures the effects of human capital endowments set before entry on the … labor market. Cognitive skills, co-determined with stature early in life, do not explain much of the height earnings premium …
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We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental quality, depending on how much they expect to live, but also in order to leave good environmental conditions to future generations. In turn,...
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In an overlapping generations economy setup we show that, if individuals can improve their life expectancy by exerting some effort, costly in terms of either resources or utility, the competitive equilibrium steady state differs from the first best steady state. This is due to the fact that...
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Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining...
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prosperity and good health, it is however often regarded as a source of problems for policy-makers. The goal of this paper is to … raised for the design of the social security system, pension policies, preventive health policies, the provision of long term …
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In many developed countries attempts to reform physicians payment schemes have failed. To analyze some of the difficulties, this paper studies reforms of payment schemes in situations such as the physician agency, where the quality of the good produced is imperfectly observable by the payer. We...
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reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an …
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How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and … even a deterioration in their health between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, taking the reform as a tool to filter out the …
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