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Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight : Inequality Across Quantiles

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...

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When Health Trumps Money : Economic Incentives and Health Equity in the Provision of Nursing Homes

Hernæs, Øystein; Kverndokk, Snorre; Markussen, Simen; … - 2023

The allocation of public care services should be determined by individual needs but can be influenced by economic factors. This paper examines the impact of economic incentives on the allocation of nursing home care in the Norwegian long-term care system. The study uses a theoretical model and...

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Age and Health Related Inheritance Taxation

Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021

This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

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Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Mancy, … - 2021

distributions of health and wealth, leading to differences in the ability to mitigate future income shocks. We study consumption … health and wealth are jointly determined under income and health risk that are related to disease outbreak risk. We calibrate … in wealth and health, implying persistent increases in wealth inequality that are characterised by increases in wealth …

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Health Improvements Impact Income Inequality

Kotschy, Rainer - 2021

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality …

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Public pensions in the national accounts and public finance targets

Oksanen, Heikki - 2004

Preparations are underway to revise national accounting to implement actuarial recording of pension liabilities for corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of ?implicit tax? in pension contributions. The clearest advantages of...

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How much does violence tax trade?

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D. - 2004

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is based on a panel data set with annual observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 1999, which brings together information from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for...

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Actuarial neutrality across generations applied to public pensions under population ageing : effects on government finances and national saving

Oksanen, Heikki - 2005

In welfare states, collective saving has declined to a persistently negative level, while reduced fertility and increasing longevity are leading to increasing pension liabilities. Actuarial neutrality across generations is presented as a benchmark for designing pension reforms to meet the...

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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policy and macroeconomic fluctuations

Malley, Jim; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Woitek, Ulrich - 2005

In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and aggregate fluctuations. The set-up is a stylized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model incorporating both technology and political re-election shocks. The later are incorporated via a two-party model with elections. The...

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