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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2010

, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in …

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Forecasting Trends in Disability in a Super-Aging Society : Adapting the Future Elderly Model to Japan

Chen, Brian - 2016

Model (FEM), a demographic and economic state-transition microsimulation model that projects the health conditions and …

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Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium

Desmet, Raphael; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2010

The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...

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Optimal Income Transfer Programs : Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses

Saez, Emmanuel - 2022

maximizes a social welfare function and faces the traditional equity-efficiency trade-off. The paper models labor supply …

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Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Rangel, Antonio - 2022

This paper develops a theory of intergenerational exchange for generations that are either selfish or have non-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the relationship between them. A FIG is a transfer from...

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The Effect of Welfare Payments on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers : Results from a Twins Experiment

Grogger, Jeff; Bronars, Stephen G. - 2010

We study one aspect of the link between welfare and unwed motherhood: the relationship between benefit levels and the … generate effectively random variation in welfare benefits among mothers within a state, which allows us to control for … unobservable characteristics of states that typically confound the relationship between welfare payments and behavior. The twins …

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral response to welfare reform differed by recency of immigration. Finally … these states to investigate whether the immigrant provisions of federal welfare reform legislation had a 'chilling' effect …

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Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics

Gertler, Mark; Huckfeldt, Christopher; Trigari, Antonella - 2022

We revisit the role of temporary layoffs in the business cycle, motivated by their unprecedented surge during the pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the present. While many have emphasized a stabilizing...

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Snap and Paycheck Cycles

Beatty, Tim; Bitler, Marianne; Cheng, Xinzhe Huang; Van … - 2022

It is well documented that individuals do not spend SNAP benefits smoothly over the month after receipt. Rather, recipients spend a disproportionate share of benefits at the beginning of the benefit month. This has costs for recipients and stores. There is also evidence that other income...

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The Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being

Bando, Rosangela - 2017

Public expenditures on non-contributory pensions are equivalent to at least 1 percent of GDP in several countries in Latin America and is expected to increase. We explore the effect of non-contributory pensions on the well-being of the beneficiary population by studying the Pension 65 program in...

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