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The paper addresses the factors that affect the reduction of rural mortality from external causes in the regions of RF … models of the factors and determinants of the existing interregional differences in the pattern of rural mortality from … presents the results of the study of the dynamics and pattern of external causes of rural mortality with the use of Rosstat …
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The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise. …
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to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect … - women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. …
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We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …
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historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution … capital-income ratio and the inheritance flow during the twenti-eth century. The recent differences in inheritance flows have …
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Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death: (i) an ante-mortem age-based...
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The paper takes the Leibnitz Integral Rule (LIR) under variable integration limits and demonstrates how it can be applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life span) of the investment is itself a variable determined...
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While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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