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exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …
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We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on … ignored by previous contributions. Indeed, as the environmental tax improves the health profile over the life-cycle, it …
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We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on … ignored by previous contributions. Indeed, as the environmental tax improves the health profile over the life-cycle, it … influences saving, labor supply, retirement and investment in health. We also show that whether those general equilibrium effects …
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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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egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …
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Introduced by Samuelson (1975), the Serendipity Theorem states that the competitive economy will converge towards the optimum steady-state provided the optimum population growth rate is imposed. This paper aims at exploring whether the Serendipity Theorem still holds in an economy with risky...
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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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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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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...
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Introduced by Samuelson (1975), the Serendipity Theorem states that the competitive economy will converge towards the optimum steady-state provided the optimum population growth rate is imposed. This paper aims at exploring whether the Serendipity Theorem still holds in an economy with risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784116