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premature death, pension policies and long-term care. -- life expectancy ; mortality ; optimal public policy …
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external effects. Individual agents differ in terms of their mortality profile. At birth, nature assigns a health status to …
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fertility model that generates an endogenous demographic transition by means of distinguishing between female and male labor. We …
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incomes and fertility. Because a marginal birth under a cap lowers all incomes, a cap induces a negative population … in steady state. -- population externality ; Pigovian tax ; emissions cap ; endogenous fertility ; economic growth …
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administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
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throughout much of the world. Expansions of labor supply due to improvements in functional capacity among older people can …
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While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
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We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … relatively strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that …
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