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Henrik Andersson
sous la direction de Niek Mouter, vol. 6, chapitre 3, 2020, p. 75–99
The monetary value of preventing one statistical death is usually defined as the value of a statistical life (VSL), which is the focus of this chapter. It represents how much society would be willing to spend to prevent one unidentified death, but since no easily available prices exist for this...
Etienne Danchin, Sabine Noebel, Arnaud Pocheville et Guillaume Isabel
vol. 31, n° 6, décembre 2020, p. 1292–1293
Frédérique Fève, Thierry Magnac et Soterios Soteri
sous la direction de Timothy J. Brennan, Pier Luigi Parcu et Victor Glass, 2020
Ingela Alger et Jörgen W. Weibull
sous la direction de Kaushik Basu, David Rosenblatt et Claudia Sepulveda, 2020
Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer et Kerstin Roeder
vol. 130, n° 103589, novembre 2020
We study long-term care (LTC) choices by families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC can be provided either informally by children, or formally at home or in an institution. A social norm implies that daughters suffer a psychological cost when they provide less informal care than the average...
Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber et Paul Seabright
vol. 135, n° 4, novembre 2020, p. 1799–1848
This paper provides experimental support for the hypothesis that insurance can be a motive for religious donations. We randomize enrollment of members of a Pentecostal church in Ghana into a commercial funeral insurance policy. Then church members allocate money between themselves and a set of...
Anna D’Annunzio et Antonio Russo
vol. 66, n° 11, novembre 2020, p. 5040–5058
Thomas S. Kraft, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Angela Garcia, Hillard Kaplan et Michael Gurven
vol. 375, n° 1811, novembre 2020
Humans have the longest post-reproductive lifespans and lowest rates of actuarial ageing among primates. Understanding the links between slow actuarial ageing and physiological change is critical for improving the human ‘healthspan’. Physiological dysregulation may be a key feature of ageing in...
Jacques Crémer et Gary Biglaiser
novembre 2020, p. 1–43
Marcel Boyer
n° 20-1169, novembre 2020
: In the assessment of the cost of public funds, there is a pervasive economic fallacy, which is frequently repeated by officials in both the private and public sectors as well as in academia: since the cost of borrowing is higher for a private sector firm than it is for a public sector firm, the...
