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Compensating the Dead? Yes we can!
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, compensation can be carried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676068
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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013
. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on expected lifetime welfare (ex ante), allowing for a compensation … for unequal life expectancies; (2) the maximin on realized lifetime welfare (ex post), allowing for a compensation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738814
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Utilitarianism and unequal longevities: A remedy?
Ponthière, Grégory; Leroux, Marie-Louise - HAL - 2009
-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation. This paper proposes a remedy to that undesirable property of utilitarianism … exhibits a compensation of short-lived agents, under the form of a higher consumption. Then, in a general framework where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738941
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Utilitarianism and unequal longevities: A remedy?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Economic Modelling 30 (2013) C, pp. 888-899
intuition for compensation. We examine the robustness of that result to the introduction of risky lifetime, and to a broader …. This compensation-constrained utilitarianism is shown to reduce welfare inequalities across agents with unequal lifetimes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608272
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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, a compensation can be carried …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930209
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Compensating the dead
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Journal of Mathematical Economics 51 (2014) C, pp. 28-41
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite those difficulties, a compensation can be carried out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875284
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052766
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024401
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Fair long-term care insurance
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214132
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Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215166