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On the policy implications of changing longevity

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2012

premature death, pension policies and long-term care. -- life expectancy ; mortality ; optimal public policy …

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Economic growth and longevity risk with adverse selection

Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2009

external effects. Individual agents differ in terms of their mortality profile. At birth, nature assigns a health status to …

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Ageing, government budgets, retirement, and growth

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2011

We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...

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Population, population density, and technological change

Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004

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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On the Optimality of PAYG Pension Systems in an Endogenous Fertility Setting

Abío, G.; Mahieu, Geraldine; Patxot, Cio - 2003

In order to help in designing an accurate pension reform, we determine the resource allocation in an endogenous fertility model that generates an endogenous demographic transition by means of distinguishing between female and male labor. We analyze the problem of the optimal solution and...

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Fertility, mortality, and the developed worlds̕ demographic transition

Fehr, Hans (contributor); Jokisch, Sabine (contributor); … - 2004

changes in fertility and mortality on the developed worlds̕ demographic transition. The model features three regions the U ….S., Japan, and the EU-15 and incorporates age- and time-specific fertility and mortality rates, detailed fiscal institutions … economic consequences of both higher fertility and lower mortality rates. The simulations indicate very minor effects on the …

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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017

We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von … generated a significant mortality reduction. The results are largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. We …

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