Cette communication propose d'analyser, dans une perspective économique, la mise en œuvre de l'obligation alimentaire dans le cadre du financement de la prise en charge de personnes âgées dépendantes. Il s'agit, à partir d'un échantillon de 305 personnes soumises à cette obligation, de...

This note analyzes some properties of optional two-part pricing in a two-type economy. First, the optimal contracts along the Paretian frontier are described. Then, the duality relation between the Rawlsian program and the discriminating monopoly is demonstrated. Last, this property is used to...

This article is focused on children providing and financing long-term care for their elderly parent. The aim of this work is to highlight the interactions that may take place among siblings when deciding whether or not to become a caregiver. We look at families with two children using data from...

In a partial equilibrium framework, SHARKEY and SIBLEY [1993] show paradoxally that all redistributive optimal two-part pricings are sustainable. They also suggest the extension of their main result to non-linear pricing. In this paper, it is shown that in fact their result doesn't extend...

In order to improve financial access to complementary health insurance (CHI) in France, a CHI voucher program, called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS) was introduced in 2005. Four years later, the program covered only 18% of the eligible population. Two main hypotheses are put forward to...