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Pensions and fertility : back to the roots ; the introduction of Bismarck's pension scheme and the European fertility decline

Fenge, Robert; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2013

Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … which a public pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension … system on fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on …

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Pensions and fertility incentives

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2003

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

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Are family allowances and fertility-related pensions siamese twins?

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2004

-as-you-go pension system. Family allowances are compared to introducing a fertility-related component into the pension formula. In an …

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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

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What can economists learn from happiness research?

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

Over the past few years, there has been a steadily increasing interest on the part of economists in happiness research. We argue that reported subjective well-being is a satisfactory empirical approximation to individual utility and that happiness research is able to contribute important...

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Mixing Bismarck and child pension systems : an optimum taxation approach

Fenge, Robert (contributor); … - 2006

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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...

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Beyond Bentham : measuring procedural utility

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2001

We propose that outcome utility and process utility can be distinguished and empirically measured. People gain procedural utility from participating in the political decision-making process itself, irrespective of the outcome. Nationals enjoy both outcome and process utility, while foreigners...

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Happiness of economists

Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah; Frey, Bruno S. - 2014

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

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Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions and democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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