Publications

Papers published in international peer-reviewed journals:

1.   "The optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies policies" (with P. Pestieau and G. Ponthière). Health Economics, 2024. Link to paper.

2. "Conditioning public pensions on health: effects on capital accumulation and welfare" (with G. Fabbri, P. Melindi-Ghidi and W. Sas). Accepted Journal of Population Economics, 2024.

3. "La mauvaise perception des risques de longévité et de dépendance ne suffit pas à expliquer la faiblesse du marché de l'assurance dépendance (au Canada)" (with M. Boyer, P. De Donder, C. Fluet, P-C. Michaud). Revue d'Économie Financière, 2024.

4. "Advantageous selection without moral hasard " (with P. De Donder and F. Salanié). Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, Link to paper.

5. "Age and health related non linear inheritance taxation" (with P. Pestieau), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023. Link to paper. 

6. "Nursing home aversion post-pandemic: Implications for savings and long-term care policy" (with B. Achou, P. De Donder, F. Glenzer and M. Lee), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022. Link to paper.

View brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

View  video of the presentation  (starting at 19:13) at the conference “Virage vers les soins à domicile au Québec? Enjeux et possibilités” (in French), organized by CIRANO, CREEI and the RSI, on May 27, 2021.

7. "Childlessness, Childfreeness and Compensation" (with P. Pestieau and G. Ponthiere), Social Choice and Welfare, 2022. link to paper.

8. "Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness" (with M. Fleurbaey, P. Pestieau, G. Ponthiere, S. Zuber),  2022. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, link to paper.

9. "Long Term Care Insurance with State-Dependent Preferences'' (with P. De Donder), Health Economics, 2021, link to paper.

10. "Age-related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk" (with P. Pestieau), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2021, link to paper.

11. "Fair Long-Term Care Insurance" (with G. Ponthière and P. Pestieau). Social Choice and Welfare, 2021, link to paper 

12. "Poverty Among the Elderly: The Role of Public Pension Systems" (with P. Jacques and D. Stevanovic), International Tax and Public Finance, 2020, link to paper. 

Link to the ITAX twitter summary. 

13. “Nursing Home Choice, Family Bargaining and Optimal Policy in a Hotelling Economy” (with G. Ponthière),  Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2020, link to paper.

14. "Long Term Care Insurance: Information Frictions and Selection" (with MM. Boyer, P. De Donder, C. Fluet, P-C. Michaud), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, link to paper.

15. "A Canadian Parlor Room-Type Approach to the Long Term Care Insurance puzzle" (with M.  Boyer, P. De Donder, C. Fluet, and P-C. Michaud), Canadian Public Policy, 2019, link to paper

16. “The Political Economy of Contributive Pensions in Developing Countries” (with D. Maldonado and P. Pestieau), European Journal of Political Economy, 2019,link to paper.

17.  “Long Term Care Risk Misperceptions” (with M. Boyer, P. De Donder, C. Fluet and P-C. Michaud), Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practices, 2019, link to paper.  

18. “Working Time Regulation, Risky Lifetime and Fairness” (with G. Ponthière), Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, link to paper.

19. “The political choice of social long term care transfers when family gives time and money” (with P. De Donder). Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, link to paper

20.  “Fair Retirement under Risky Lifetime’’ (joint with Marc Fleurbaey, Pierre Pestieau, Grégory Ponthière).  International Economic Review, 2016,  link to paper. 

21. “Evidence on Individual Preferences for Longevity Risks’’ (joint with Gaëtan Delprat and Pierre-Carl Michaud). Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2016, link to paper.

22. “Public and Private Hospitals, Congestion and Redistribution” (joint with Chiara Canta). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, link to paper.

23. “Longévité différentielle et redistribution: enjeux théoriques et empiriques.” (with G. Ponthière and P. Pestieau). Actualité Economique, 2015, link to paper.

24. “Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies with Longevity Choices and Fair Annuities” (joint with Julio Davila). Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015, link to paper.

25. “Compensating The Dead” (joint with Marc Fleurbaey and Grégory Ponthière). Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2014, link to paper.

26. “Behavioral Biases and Long Term Care Insurance: A Political Economy Approach’’ (joint with Philippe De Donder), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Advances, 2014, link to paper.

27. “Social Security and Family Altruism” (joint with P. Pestieau), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, link to paper.

28. “Optimal Prevention when Coexistence Matters” (joint with Grégory Ponthière), Journal of Population Economics, 2013, link to paper.

29. “Utilitarianism and Differential Longevity: A Remedy?” (joint with Grégory Ponthière), Economic Modelling, 2013, link to paper.

30. “The Political Economy of Derived Pension Rights” (joint with Pierre Pestieau), International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, link to paper.

31. “On The Public Economics of Annuities with Differential Mortality” (joint with Antoine Bommier and Jean Marie Lozachmeur), Journal of Public Economics, 2011, link to paper.

32. “Voting on Pensions: Sex and Marriage” (joint with Pierre Pestieau and Maria Racionero), European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, link to paper. 

33. “Longevity, Genes and Efforts: An Optimal Taxation Approach to Prevention” (joint with Pierre Pestieau and Grégory Ponthière), Journal of Health Economics, 2011, link to paper.

34. “Endogenous Differential Mortality, Non-Contractible Effort and Optimal Taxation”, International Tax and Public Finance, 2011, link to paper.  

35. “Optimal Linear Taxation under Endogenous Longevity” (joint with Pierre Pestieau and Grégory Ponthière), Journal of Population Economics, 2011, link to paper. 

36. “Differential mortality and Social Security” (joint with Antoine Bommier and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2011, link to paper.

37. “The Political Economy of Social Security under Differential Mortality and Voluntary Retirement”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2010, link to paper.

38. “Optimal Tax Policy and Expected Longevity: A Mean and Variance Utility Approach” (joint with Grégory Ponthière), International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, link to paper.    

Book Review:

Howard S. Friedman, Ultimate price: the value we place on life, Journal of Economics, 2021, link to paper.