The primary purpose of this paper is to report estimates of the size and the social and demographic composition of the population of Poland, in the years 1997-2050, which takes into account the variables needed for modelling the effects of the 1999 pension reform. The total population is...

In 1936, the US government enacted the later-known Bonus Act, which triggered cash transfers to about 3 million veterans who had served in World War I. This paper studies the long-run benefits of veterans’ bonus receipt on their children’s old-age longevity. We employ data from Social...