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 …

expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …

implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …

at the case of France. We build a simple model that incorporates the main features of the system, such as the uniform … situation in France we find that the 'stylized facts? of the system correspond to our results. Additionally, the policies …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ … preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda …

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …