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Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do...

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Family bargaining and the gender gap in informal care

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2022

market wage and a lower bargaining power within the family with respect to sons. Consequently, they provide more informal …. Transfers within the family should be distorted in both types of families. …

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Maybe "honor thy father and thy mother" : uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care insurance

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz - 2016

We study the role and design of private and public insurance programs when informal care is uncertain. Children's degree of altruism is randomly distributed over some interval. Social insurance helps parents who receive a low level of care, but it comes at the cost of crowding out informal care....

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Uncertain altruism and non-linear long-term care policies

Canta, Chiara; Cremer, Helmuth - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

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Gender wage and longevity gaps and the design of retirement systems

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021

concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … singles only this implies distortions of retirement decision and restricts redistribution across genders. With couples, a … first best that implies a lower retirement age for females can be implemented by a gender-neutral system. Otherwise, gender …

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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...

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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014

We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...

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Caregivers in the family : daughters, sons and social norms

Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2017

is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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Long-term care and lazy rotten kids

Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2013

This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case … scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, and neither side can make credible … that when family aid (and long-term care services in general) are introduced, the outcome is likely to be inefficient …

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