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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

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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How far reaches the power of personality? : personality predictors of terminal decline in well-being

Mueller, Swantje; Wagner, Jenny; Wagner, Gert G.; Ram, Nilam - 2017

Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or...

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Call the midwife health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887-1921

Kotsadam, Andreas; Lind, Jo Thori; Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - 2017

The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years …, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health …

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The effect of self-employment on health : evidence from longitudinal social security data

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2018

into self-employment. Similar results are found for mortality rates. …

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The price of violence : consequences of violent crime in Sweden

Ornstein, Petra - 2017

incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status … more than 80 percent result from excess mortality. Estimates on socio-economic outcomes show robustness against selection … on unobserved characteristics. Estimates on mortality and suicides are very robust. …

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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings : distributional implications for the pension system

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017

This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...

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