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We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, allowing a possible round of either one-way or two-way cheap talk before the game is played. We compare different treatments to study truthful revelation of information and subsequent...
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By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...
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This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
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mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that … retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … inequality under nuclear family arrangements. Pooling mortality risks with equal treatment of all children may fend off, or even …
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-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …
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Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical … mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often differ among individuals although these differences are imperfectly …
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baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the "dead anyway" effect. We suggest, however, that ambiguity aversion should … usually have a modest effect on the prevention of ambiguous mortality risks within benefit-cost analysis, and can hardly …
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This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
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In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...
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Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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