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Family policies : what does the standard endogenous fertility model tell us ?

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

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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Production factor returns : the role of factor utilisation

Cette, Gilbert; Dromel, Nicolas L.; Lecat, Rémy; … - HAL - 2011

Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...

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Potential output growth in several industrialised countries: a comparison

Cahn, Christophe; Saint-Guilhem, Arthur - HAL - 2008

In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies -Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States- for the period 1991-2004, for which we construct consistent and homogenous...

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Impacto De Las Patentes Sobre El Crecimiento Económico: Un Modelo Panel Cointegrado [Impact of Patents on Economic Growth: A Cointegrated Panel Data Model]

Robledo, Jacobo Campo - HAL - 2012

This article presents an empirical model of non-stationary and cointegrated panel data to explain the impact of industrial property, measured by patents, on the GDP of 10 Latin America countries during the period 1990 to 2010. Apply traditional unit root tests and unit root test of art, which...

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A global foresight on food crop needs for livestock

Cotty, Tristan Le; Dorin, Bruno - HAL - 2012

Increasingly more studies are raising concerns about the increasing consumption of meat and the increasing amount of crops (cereals and oilseeds in particular) used to feed animals and that could be used to feed people. The evolution of this amount is very sensitive to human diets and to the...

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Prevention against equality?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

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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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

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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Actuarial risk assessment of expected fatalities attributable to carbon capture and storage in 2050

Ha-Duong, Minh; Loisel, Rodica - HAL - 2011

This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...

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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

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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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013

egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …

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