Mortality and public policy
Social insurance against a short life: Ante Mortem versus Post Mortem policies Social Choice and Welfare, 65 (2025), 255-290.
Equivalent income versus equivalent lifetime. Does the metric matter? (with H. Onder and P. Pestieau) Journal of Demographic Economics, 91 (2025), 210-239.
Measuring well-being and lives worth living (with M. Fleurbaey) Economic Theory, 75 (2023), 1247-1266.
Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness (with M. Fleurbaey, M.L. Leroux, P. Pestieau and S. Zuber) The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 124 (2022), 709-743.
Optimal lockdown and social welfare (with P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 35 (2022), 241-268.
Le confinement optimal: quelques calculs exploratoires. (with P. Pestieau) Revue Française d'Economie, 35 (2021), 3-21.
A theory of reverse retirement. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22 (2020), 1618-1659.
Pensions and social justice: from standard retirement to reverse retirement. La Revue de l'OFCE, 170 (2020), 193-226.
Working time regulation, unequal lifetimes and fairness. (with M-L. Leroux) Social Choice and Welfare, 51 (2018), 437-464.
Age de la retraite. In P. Savidan (ed.) Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale, Presses Universitaires de France (2018), 13-18.
Espérance de vie et prévention des risques liés au vieillissement. (with P. Pestieau) Risques, 116 (2018), 102-111.
Economie du vieillissement. Introduction. (with P. Pestieau) Revue Française d'Economie, 33 (2018), 3-14.
Fair retirement under risky lifetime. (with M. Fleurbaey, M-L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) International Economic Review, 57 (2016), 177-210.
Lifetime well-being. In M. Adler and M. Fleurbaey (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy. Oxford University Press, chapter 29 (2016), 871-900.
The contribution of improved joint survival conditions to living standards: an equivalent consumption approach. Social Choice and Welfare, 46 (2016), 407-449.
Longevity variations and the Welfare State. (with P. Pestieau) Journal of Demographic Economics, 82 (2016), 207-239.
Le modèle social européen: performance et équité (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Revue Française d'Economie, 29 (2015), 3-14.
Longévité différentielle et redistribution: une approche théorique et empirique. (with M.L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) L'Actualité Economique, 91 (2015), 465-497.
Compensating the dead. (with M. Fleurbaey and M-L. Leroux) Journal of Mathematical Economics, 51 (2014), 28-41. Also published in the special issue The Issues Arising from a Pandemic: Contributions from Mathematical Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, April 2020.
Policy implications of changing longevity. (with P. Pestieau) CESifo Economic Studies, 60 (2014), 178-212.
Prevention against equality? (with M. Fleurbaey) Journal of Public Economics, 103 (2013), 68-84.
Optimal prevention when coexistence matters. (with M-L. Leroux) Journal of Population Economics, 26 (2013), 1095-1127.
Fair accumulation under risky lifetime. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 61 (2013), 210-230.
Utilitarianism and unequal longevities: a remedy? (with M-L. Leroux) Economic Modelling, 30 (2013), 888-899.
Myopia, regrets and risky behaviors. (with P. Pestieau) International Tax and Public Finance, 19 (2012), 288-317.
The public economics of increasing longevity (with P. Pestieau) Hacienda Publica Espanola, 200 (2012), 41-74.
Longevity, genes and efforts: an optimal taxation approach to prevention. (with M-L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) Journal of Health Economics, 30 (2011), 62-76.
Optimal linear taxation under endogenous longevity. (with M-L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 24 (2011), 213-237.
Unequal longevities and lifestyles transmission. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12 (2010), 93-126.
Optimal tax policy and expected longevity: a mean and variance utility approach. (with M-L. Leroux) International Tax and Public Finance, 16 (2009), 514-537.
Longevity, health spending and pay-as-you-go pensions. (with P. Pestieau and M. Sato) FinanzArchiv - Public Finance Analysis, 64 (2008), 1-18.
Mortality and poverty measurement
Missing poor in the U.S. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau), The Journal of Economic Inequality, 22 (2024), 865-891.
Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau), Cliometrica, 17 (2023), 155-183.
Missing poor and income mobility. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Journal of Comparative Economics, 47 (2019), 330-366.
Premature mortality and poverty measurement in an OLG economy. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 32 (2019), 621-664.
Pauvreté cachée (missing poor). In P. Savidan (ed.) Dictionnaire des inégalités et de la justice sociale. Presses Universitaires de France (2018), 1262-1267.
FGT old-age poverty measures and the mortality paradox: theory and evidence. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Review of Income and Wealth, 64 (2018), 428-458.
Mortalité différentielle et pauvreté par âge. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Revue Française d'Economie, 29 (2015), 173-196.
Measuring poverty without the mortality paradox. (with M. Lefebvre and P. Pestieau) Social Choice and Welfare, 40 (2013), 285-316.
Mortality: measurement and dynamics
Threshold ages for the relation between lifetime entropy and mortality risk. (with P. Meyer) Mathematical Social Sciences, 108 (2020), 1-7.
Human lifetime entropy in a historical perspective (1750-2014) (with P. Meyer) Cliometrica, 14 (2020), 129-167.
Education choices, longevity and optimal policy in a Ben-Porath economy. (with Y. Nishimura and P. Pestieau) Mathematical Social Sciences, 94 (2018), 65-81.
Education, life expectancy and family bargaining: the Ben-Porath effect revisited. (with L. Leker) Education Economics, 23 (2015), 481-513.
La vie à plusieurs générations. In Lorenzi, J.H., Xuan, H. (eds.) La France face au vieillissement, Editions Descartes, Paris (2013), 53-60.
Existence and stability of overconsumption equilibria. Economic Modelling, 28 (2011), 74-90.
Eliciting preferences over multi-attribute societies with a Choquet integral. (with P. Meyer) Computational Economics, 37 (2011), 133-168.
Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade. Metroeconomica, 62 (2011), 175-217.
Measuring variations in lifetime welfare ex ante and ex post: some exporatory calculations. Bulletin of Economic Research, 63 (2011), 255-291.
On the Golden Rule of capital accumulation under endogenous longevity. (with D. de la Croix) Mathematical Social Sciences, 59 (2010), 227-238.
Rectangularization and the rise in limit longevity in a simple OLG model. The Manchester School, 77 (2009), 17-46.
A study of the sensitivity of longevity-adjusted income measures. Oxford Development Studies, 36 (2008), 339-361.
Can underemployment persist in an expanding economy? Clues from a non-Walrasian OLG model with endogenous longevity. Economic Change and Restructuring, 41 (2008), 97-124.
Measuring longevity achievements under welfare interdependencies. A case for joint life expectancy indicators. Social Indicators Research, 84 (2007), 203-230.
L'écart des niveaux de vie s'est-il creusé entre les Etats-Unis et la France? Revue Française d'Economie, 22 (2007), 149-184.
Long term care
Fair long-term care insurance. (with M-L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) Social Choice and Welfare, 57 (2021), 503-533.
Nursing home choices, family bargaining and optimal policy in a Hotelling economy. (with M-L. Leroux) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22 (2020), 899-932.
The public economics of long-term care. (with P. Pestieau) In M. Guzman (ed.) Toward a Just Society. Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics. Columbia University Press (2018), 493-507.
Long-term care and births timing. (with P. Pestieau) Journal of Health Economics, 50 (2016), 340-357.
Long term care, altruism and socialization. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy - Advances, 14 (2013), 429-471.
The economics of long term care: a survey. (with H. Cremer and P. Pestieau) Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2 (2012), 107-148.
The long term care insurance puzzle. (with P. Pestieau) In J. Costa-Font and C. Courbage (eds.): Financing Long Term Care in Europe: Institutions, Markets and Models, Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 41-52.
Population and environment
Stoicism and the Tragedy of the Commons. Environmental and Resource Economics, 88 (2025), 1213-1238.
The Morality of Markets. A Critique. (with N. Stevens) Mathematical Social Sciences, 134 (2025), 14-19.
Epictetusian rationality and evolutionary stability. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 34 (2024), 647-673.
The stakeholder corporation and social welfare. (with M. Fleurbaey) Journal of Political Economy, 131 (2023), 2556-2594.
The Tragedy of the Commons and socialization: theory and policy. (with E. Bezin) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98 (C) (2019).
Pollution, décès prématuré et compensation, Revue Economique, 68 (2017), 97-118.
Pollution, unequal lifetimes and fairness. Mathematical Social Sciences, 82 (2016), 49-64.
Rationalizability and interactivity in evolutionary OLG models. Mathematical Social Sciences, 66 (2013), 105-116.
Mortality, family and lifestyles. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 32 (2011), 175-190.
Survival, reproduction and congestion: the spaceship problem re-examined. (with P-A. Jouvet) Journal of Bioeconomics, 13 (2011), 233-273.
Longevity and environmental quality in a simple OLG model. (with P-A. Jouvet and P. Pestieau) Journal of Economics, 100 (2010), 191-216.
The ecological footprint: an exhibit at an intergenerational trial? Environment, Development and Sustainability, 11 (2009), 677-694.
The economics of fertility
The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies. (with M.L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) Health Economics, 33 (2024), 1454-1479.
Fertility, heterogeneity and the Golden Rule. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 26 (2024), e12679.
Childlessness, childfreeness and compensation. (with M.L. Leroux and P. Pestieau) Social Choice and Welfare, 59 (2022), 1-35.
Development, fertility and childbearing age. A Unified Growth theory. (with H. d'Albis and A. Greulich) Journal of Economic Theory, 177 (2018), 461-494.
Optimal fertility under age-dependent labor productivity. (with P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 30 (2017), 621-646.
Education, labor and the demographic consequences of births postponement in Europe. (with H. d'Albis and A. Greulich) Demographic Research, 36 (2017), 691-728.
Utilitarian population ethics and births timing. Journal of Economics, 117 (2016), 189-238.
Optimal life-cycle fertility in a Barro-Becker economy. (with P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 28 (2015), 45-87.
Optimal fertility along the life cycle. (with P. Pestieau) Economic Theory, 55 (2014), 185-224.
Childbearing age, family allowances and social security. (with P. Pestieau) Southern Economic Journal, 80 (2013), 385-413.
How powerful is demography? The Serendipity theorem revisited. (with D. de la Croix and P. Pestieau) Journal of Population Economics, 25 (2012), 899-922.
Economics and philosophy
Herod Strategy and the Social Insurance Scheme against a Short Life. Three Challenges. Moral Philosophy and Politics, forthcoming.
Are Long-Lived Persons Utility Monsters? Economics & Philosophy, 41 (2025), 376-394.
Epictetusian rationality. Economic Theory, 78 (2024), 219-262.
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek et Peter Singer. Le plus grand bonheur possible. Une introduction à l'utilitarisme, Eliott Editions, 2022. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 121 (2023), forthcoming.
Vie brève, dommage et bien-être économique. Jalons pour une étude de la rareté du temps de vie. Revue de Philosophie Economique, 24 (2023), 129-162.
An age-differentiated tax on bequests. (with P. Pestieau). In: G. Bognar and A. Gosseries (eds.) Aging without Agism? Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. Oxford University Press (2023), 254-266.
The value of a life-year and the intuition of universality. (with M. Fleurbaey). Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 22 (2022), 355-381.
Life as a trust game. A comment on The Option Value of Life. Economics & Philosophy, 38 (2022), 300-308.
John Roemer. How We Cooperate. A Theory of Kantian Optimization, Yale University Press, 2019. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 119 (2021), 688-691.
Justice sociale et générations. Pourquoi et comment transmettre un monde plus juste, Cédric Rio, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. Revue de Philosophie Economique, 16 (2015), 203-211.
On the relevancy of the Ecological Footprint for the study of intergenerational justice. In: J.C. Merle (ed.) Spheres of Global Justice. Volume 2: Fair Distribution - Global Economic, Social and Environmental Justice, Springer (2013), 735-745.
The relation between the justification principle, the optimisation principle and the dose limit principle: A geometric comment. In G. Eggermont & B. Feltz (eds.), Ethics and Radiological Protection, Academia, Brussels (2008), 113-120.
The risk equity axiom versus the preference for catastrophe avoidance axiom in nuclear ethics. In G. Eggermont & B. Feltz (eds.), Ethics and Radiological Protection, Academia, Brussels (2008), 197-213.
The democratic firm. (with A. Gosseries). Revue de Philosophie Economique, 18 (2008), 3-9.
La démocratie d'entreprises est-elle désirable? Le point de vue de l'observateur impartial. Revue de Philosophie Economique, 18 (2008), 79-101.
Discriminations in gustibus et de facto. Revue de Philosophie Economique, 15 (2007), 95-112.