While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Desigh applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

We study labour-income and consumption taxation in an overlapping-generations model featuring endogenous growth due to inter-firm investment externalities. Consumption, saving, and labour supply display life-cycle features because mortality and labour productivity are age dependent and because...

This paper studies the spillover effects of pension reform in a a two-country two-overlapping-generations model with capital and labour mobility. A stable equilibrium is achieved assuming the presence of an immobile production factor. The long-run effects of pension reform are derived...

Stand-alone collective pension schemes are an attractive third way between the extensive public pay-as-you-go schemes of continental Europe and the individual pension plans that are increasingly replacing defined-benefit plans in the Anglo-Saxon countries. If a number of further reforms are...

This paper aims to detect whether or not people could work for more years in the presence of a more flourishing and cheaper formal care market, which, in turn, would provide support for people who are still at work and who have to cope with the care of their elderly parents and relatives. We...