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Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021

concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … singles only this implies distortions of retirement decision and restricts redistribution across genders. With couples, a … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …

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Accidental bequests: A curse for the rich and a boon for the poor

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

inheritance and the other of those who do. The first tagged group gets a second-best tax à la Mirrlees; the second group a first …-best tax schedule. The solution implies that receiving an inheritance makes high-ability types worse off and low-ability types …

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Habit formation and labor supply

Cremer, Helmuth; de Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Darío; … - 2008

This paper shows that the combination of habit formation - present consumption creating additional consumption needs in the future - and myopia may explain why some retirees are forced to unretire, i.e., unexpectedly return to work. It also shows that when myopia about habit formation leads to...

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Taxing Pensions

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

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Soda Tax Incidence and Design Under Monopoly

Cremer, Helmuth - 2019

We consider an unhealthy good, such as a sugar-sweetened beverage, the health damages of which are misperceived by consumers. The sugar content is endogenous. We first study the solution under “pseudo” perfect competition. In that case a simple Pigouvian tax levied per unit of output but...

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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

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Asymmetric Information, Strategic Transfers, and the Design of Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2021

We study the design of social long-term care (LTC) insurance when informal care is exchange-based. Parents do not observe their children's cost of providing care, which is continuously distributed over some interval. They choose a rule specifying transfers that are conditional on the level of...

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Income taxation of couples and the tax unit choice

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - 2007

allow multidimensional heterogeneity in a discrete type framework. We concentrate our analysis on the resulting intra-family …

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Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2009

deterministically chosen but the children's future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in …

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Education and social mobility

Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Pestieau, Pierre - 2010

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We...

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