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

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

There exists a large consensus in the economic literature and in the economic institutions about the legitimacy of policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present...

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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited

Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

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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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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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited

Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

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The public economics of increasing longevity

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

One of the greatest success stories in our societies is that people are living longer, life expectancy at birth being now above 80 years. Whereas the lengthening of life opens huge opportunities for individuals if extra years are spent in prosperity and good health, it is however often regarded...

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