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Lives and livelihoods : estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …
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Taxing tobacco in Georgia : welfare and distributional gains of smoking cessation
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan; González Icaza, María Fernanda - 2020
This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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The design of pension pay out options when the health status during retirement is uncertain
Kifmann, Mathias (contributor) - 2008
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Price and death
Itaya, Jun-ichi (contributor);  … - 2008
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Reputation, price, and death : an empirical analysis of art price formation
Ursprung, Heinrich W. (contributor);  … - 2008
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Should we subsidize longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2009
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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Uncertain longevity and investment in education
Sheshinski, Eytan - 2009
It has been argued that increased life expectancy raises the rate of return on education, causing a rise in the investment in education followed by an increase in lifetime labor supply. Empirical evidence of these relations is rather weak. Building on a lifecycle model with uncertain longevity,...
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Social security incidence under uncertainty assessing Italian reforms
Geron, Devis - 2009
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of the Italian social security system in an economy with uncertainty on wages, financial market returns and life expectancy. The introduction of a pension system reproducing the Italian statutory scheme turns out to decrease ex-ante individual welfare,...
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