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Redistribution with unequal life expectancy
Köhne, Sebastian - 2023
optimal income tax policy using theory and calibration. A positive association between life expectancy and income counteracts … the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …
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Age, inequality and the public provision of healthcare
Mitra, Anirban - 2021
between income redistribution and two forms of public spending - healthcare and capital investment - are determined through …
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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017
We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...
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Redistributive effects of pension reforms : who are the winners and losers?
Sánchez Romero, Miguel; Schuster, Philip; … - In: Journal of pension economics and finance : JPEF 23 (2024) 2, pp. 294-320
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Income inequality, fertility, human capital accumulation and economic growth in Mexico
Charles-Coll, Jorge; Mayer Granados, Elizabeth; Garza … - In: Research in world economy 6 (2015) 1, pp. 172-183
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Intragenerational redistribution in a funded pension system
Frassi, Benedetta; Gnecco, Giorgio; Pammolli, Fabio; … - In: Journal of pension economics and finance 18 (2019) 2, pp. 271-303
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Assessing the fairness of a project financing formula on successive generations
Penyalver, Domingo; Turró, Mateu - In: International journal of transport economics : IJTE 44 (2017) 1, pp. 153-176
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Heterogeneity in longevity, redistribution, and pension reform
Díaz-Saavedra, Julián - In: Journal of pension economics and finance : JPEF 22 (2023) 4, pp. 604-639
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Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
Standard homo economicus lives in a world of complete markets and maximizes utility which is a function of his personal consumption. This approximation cannot account for parents making transfers to adult children, children taking care of old parents, nor for gifts, inheritance and many other...
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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle - some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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