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Health and Aging Before and after Retirement

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 … used classification, workers from the first (low status) group display more health deficits at any age and accumulate …

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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...

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The Social Cost of Carbon and the Ramsey Rule

Withagen, Cees - 2019

The objective of this paper is to critically assess the use of simple rules for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that employ a rudimentary form of the Ramsey Rule. Two interrelated caveats apply. First, if climate change poses a serious problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth...

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Welfare Losses of Road Congestion

Russo, Antonio - 2019

We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a roadâ€™s throughput). We show that the external cost â€“ even when roads are not hypercongested...

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The Social Cost of Carbon and Inequality : When Local Redistribution Shapes Global Carbon Prices

Kornek, Ulrike - 2019

The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...

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Optimal Unilateral Carbon Policy

Kortum, Samuel; Weisbach, David A. - 2021

We derive the optimal unilateral policy in a general equilibrium model of trade and climate change where one region of the world imposes a climate policy and the rest of the world does not. A climate policy in one region shifts activities—extraction, production, and consumption—in the other...

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Trade, Insecurity, and the Costs of Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2022

Typically, economics assumes that property rights over productive resources or goods are perfectly defined and costlessly enforced. The costs of insecurity and the resultant conflict are, however, real and often economically significant. In this paper, we examine how international trade regimes...

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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 …

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