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Integrated Assessments of Climate Change Policy : Intergenerational Equity and Discounting

Toth, Ferenc L. - 2003

One of the key decisions that economists working on integrated studies of climate change face is the selection of the …

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Climate Change and Overlapping Generations

Howarth, Richard B. - 2014

This paper examines the interplay between discounting and the distribution of welfare between generations in formulating climate change response strategies. The analysis shows that one can understand Nordhaus's (1994) standard representative agent model for climate policy analysis as a reduced...

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Philosphers and Economists Can Agree on the Intergenerational Discount Rate and Climate Policy Paths

Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; Groom, Ben - 2022

predominantly been based on input from expert economists. It is not clear, however, that economists possess any special expertise on … the ethical issues that underpin long-term societal decision-making. This study compares expert economists’ views on key … qualitative remarks shows areas of broad agreement and yet distinct differences in rationales. While economists provide numerous …

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Parents' Discount Rate and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills

Agee, Mark D.; Crocker, Thomas D. - 2004

We use estimates of parents' discount rate, inferred from their decisions to treat their children's body burdens of lead, to test empirically a model of transmission of cognitive skills from parents to children. The development of a child's cognitive skills depends in part upon the specific...

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Utilitarianism and social discounting with countably many generations

Feng, Tangren; Ke, Shaowei; McMillan, Andrew - In: Journal of mathematical economics 98 (2022), pp. 1-9

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Philosophers and economists can agree on the intergenerational discount rate and climate policy paths

Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; … - 2022

predominantly been based on input from expert economists. It is not clear, however, that economists possess any special expertise on … the ethical issues that underpin long-term societal decision-making. This study compares expert economists' views on key … qualitative remarks shows areas of broad agreement and yet distinct differences in rationales. While economists provide numerous …

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Intergenerational discounting : public choice and empirical evidence for hyperbolic discount rates

Henderson, Norman - 1993

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The rate of discount on public investments with future bias in an altruistic overlapping generations model

Tamai, Toshiki - In: European journal of political economy 79 (2023), pp. 1-27

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Dynamically consistent intergenerational welfare

Mononen, Lasse - 2024

Dynamic consistency is crucial for credible evaluation of intergenerational choice plans that inherently lack commitment. We offer a general characterization for dynamically consistent intergenerational welfare aggregation. The aggregation is characterized by envy-guilt asymmetry in discounting...

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The cross-sectional implications of the social discount rate

Eden, Maya - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 91 (2023) 6, pp. 2065-2088

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