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nonredistributive plan that accounts for differences in mortality, US Social Security reduces regressivity from longevity differences …
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Over the past century, all OECD countries have been characterized by a dramatic increase in economic conditions, life expectancy and educational attainment. This paper provides a positive theory that explains how an economy might evolve when the longevity of its citizens both influences and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050879
Over the past century, all OECD countries have been characterized by a dramatic increase in economic conditions, life expectancy and educational attainment. This paper provides a positive theory that explains how an economy might evolve when the longevity of its citizens both influences and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035563
endogenous fertility. In the neoclassical model, habits modify the economy's growth rate and generate transitional dynamics in … fertility; station- ary income per capita is associated with either increasing or decreasing population and output, depending on … fertility: the trade-off between second-period consumption and spending for bequests prompts agents to decrease fertility in …
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fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by …-age transfers. The effect of increases in government provided pensions on fertility in the Barro and Becker model is very small …, whereas the effect on fertility in the Boldrin and Jones model is sizeable and accounts for between 55 and 65% of the observed …
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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …, implementation of the program is also robustly associated with increased labor supply of adults, reduced fertility, and increased …
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-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …
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results. First, we show that the COVID-19 mortality age gap is not explained by younger susceptible populations in developing … COVID-19 spread such as residential crowding and labor informality are correlated with younger mortality age profiles across …
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technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …
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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …, implementation of the program is also robustly associated with increased labor supply of adults, reduced fertility, and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831242