Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 3, pp. 1095-1127
We study the optimal subsidy on prevention against premature death in an economy composed of two-person households, where the survival of the spouse matters, either because of self-oriented coexistence concerns or because of altruism. Under a noncooperative household model, the laissez-faire...