This document contains the Proceedings of the Expert Consultation: "Review and inter-comparison of modelling land use change effects of bioenergy", held in Paris, on 29 - 30 January 2009. This meeting was organised by the Sustainability of Bioenergy Action of the Institute for Energy (IE), Joint...

"A considerable amount of uncertainty surrounds life expectancy at birth, the average length of life. The standard deviation in adult life spans is about 15 years in the U.S., and theory and evidence suggest it is costly. In this paper, I calibrate a standard intertemporal model to show that one...

A considerable amount of uncertainty surrounds life expectancy, the average length of life. The standard deviation in adult life span is about 15 years in the U.S., and theory and evidence suggest it is costly. I calibrate a utility-theoretic model of preferences over length of life and show...