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How Culture Shapes Choices Related to Fertility and Mortality : Causal Evidence at the Swiss Language Border
Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023
preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda …Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides …
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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records
Geiger, Nadine - 2019
weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …
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Family Planning and Climate Change
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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Inequality, Life Expectancy, and the Intragenerational Redistribution Puzzle - Some Experimental Evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We find that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, significantly lowers subjects’ willingness …
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Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals’ lifetime utilities...
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Intergenerational Actuarial Fairness When Longevity Increases : Amending the Retirement Age
Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Ayuso, Mercedes; Holzmann, Robert; … - 2021
expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …
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Endogenous Longevity and Optimal Tax Progressivity
Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2021
We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...
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On the policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2012
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
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Optimal Threshold Taxation : An Empirical Investigation for Developing Economies
Menescal, Lucas; Alves, José - 2022
In this empirical study we assess both linear and nonlinear relationship between total taxation and several tax items with real per capita GDP growth rates for 43 developing countries between 1990 and 2019. We use panel data techniques to evaluate the effects of taxation on economic growth for...
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