The mechanism stating that longer life implies larger investment in human capital, is premised on the view that individual decision-making governs the relationship between longevity and education. This relationship is revisited here from the perspective of optimal period school life expectancy,...

We study the compatibility of the optimal population size concepts produced by different social welfare functions and egalitarianism meant as “equal consumption for all individuals of all generations”. Social welfare functions are parameterized by an altruism parameter generating the...

The genuine savings criterion and the value of population in an economy with endogenous fertility rate / Kenneth J. Arrow, Alain Bensoussan, Qi Feng, and Suresh P. Sethi -- Continuous time overlapping generations models / Hippolyte d'Albis and Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron -- Modeling technological...

We develop a tractable general theory for the study of the economic and demographic impact of epidemics. In particular, we analytically characterise the short and medium term consequences of epidemics for population size, age pyramid, economic performance and income distribution. To this end, we...