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This paper examines the consequences of various attitudes towards climate damages through a family of stochastic optimal control models (RESPONSE): cost-efficiency for a given temperature ceiling; cost-benefit analysis with a "pure preference for current climate regime" and full cost-benefit...
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In this paper, we extend the individual dynamic model of life-time resource allocation to assess the monetary value given to the increase in survival probabilities of every member of a household induced by improved air quality. We then interpret this monetary value as a flow of Value of Life...
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We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect...
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Our objective is to measure the causal impact of the self-rated mental health state of 2006 (anxiety disorders and depressive episodes) on employment in 2010. We use data from the French Health and Professional Route Survey (Sip, "Santé et Itinéraire Professionnel"). In order to control the...
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link with pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and …
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First, we present what is called the Theory of Psychological Preferences (altruism, rational reciprocity...) through … collective impact of altruism, social loyalty, intrinsic reciprocity and so forth . …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...
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-run prevalence of family altruism in the population. That evolutionary effect questions the desirability of the LTC public provision … altruistic and non-altruistic agents, and where the transmission of (non) altruism takes place through a socialization process à …
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degree of short-term impatience, and the degrees of family and non family altruism. Short-term impatience and non family … altruism are found no to affect wealth but, contrarily to recent results of behavioural analysis, the three other parameters … with the degree of family altruism (wealth intended for bequests). The way preferences are measured allows to get rid of …
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Natural disasters trigger large inequalities between affected households and the rest of the community. The extent to which villages compensate for these shocks allegedly depends on the pressure imposed by the group of needy families. I model two major threats to redistribution - (i) the...
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