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Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: A mean and variance utility approach
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can infuence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the risks involved in the lotteries of life to be chosen. For that purpose, a two-period model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738885
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Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: a mean and variance approach
LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution between agents who can influence their survival probability through private health spending, but who differ in their attitude towards the risks involved in the lotteries of life to be chosen. For that purpose, we develop a two-period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043161
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Risk apportionment : the dual story
Eeckhoudt, Louis R.; Laeven, Roger J. A.; Schlesinger, … - In: Journal of economic theory 185 (2020), pp. 1-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415735
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Higher-order risk attitudes for non-expected utility
Bruggen, Paul van; Laeven, Roger J. A.; Kuilen, Gijs van de - 2024 - This version: September 2, 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052576
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Accounting for the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - 2013
investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191296
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Education, disappointment and optimal policy
Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014
explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467858
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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - 2013
investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329082
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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269651
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Social security and the rise in health spending
Zhao, Kai - In: Journal of monetary economics 64 (2014), pp. 21-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462967
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Spend less, get more? : explaining health spending and outcome differences between Canada and Italy
Di Matteo, Livio; Barbiero, T. P. - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 2, pp. 1-48
Canada spends more than Italy on health per capita and as a share of GDP and has a higher per capita GDP. Yet, life expectancy and infant mortality in Italy are better and have improved more over time. The implication is that the Italian health care system provides better value for money. We...
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