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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

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Understanding the rise in life expectancy inequality

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, … - 2021

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability. …

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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171007

Fair long-term care insurance

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes

Kotschy, Rainer - 2019

disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …

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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...

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