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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184082
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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292046
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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083743
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Conspicuous consumption, conspicuous health, and optimal taxation
Mujcic, Redzo; Frijters, Paul - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 59-70
conspicuous health as an argument in the utility function, in addition to the well-established conspicuous consumption term. We … conspicuous health has an opposite effect on the marginal tax rate, compared to an increase in concerns for conspicuous … accounts for the ‘time era’ of respondents), we find empirical evidence of a comparison health effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208869
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Should we Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - CESifo - 2009
, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000380
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Should we subsidize longevity?
LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PESTIEAU, Pierre; PONTHIÈRE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042809
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280819
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108
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Redistribution of return inequality
Schulz, Karl - 2021
Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499593
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Optimal taxation of capital income with heterogeneous rates of return
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas; Rusu, Alexandra V.; … - 2020
There is increasing empirical evidence that people systematically differ in their rates of return on capital. We derive optimal non-linear taxes on labor and capital income in the presence of such return heterogeneity. We allow for two distinct reasons why returns are heterogeneous: because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238502