Longevity, genes and efforts: An optimal taxation approach to prevention
Grégory Ponthière
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Résumé
This paper applies the analytical tools of optimal taxation theory to the design of the optimal subsidy on preventive behaviours, in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on preventive expenditures and on longevity genes. Public intervention can be here justified on three grounds: corrections for misperceptions of the survival process and for externalities related to individual preventive behaviour, and redistribution across both earnings and genetic dimensions. The optimal subsidy on preventive expenditures is shown to depend on the combined impacts of misperception, externalities and self-selection. It is generally optimal to subsidize preventive efforts to an extent depending on the degree of individual myopia, on how productivity and genes are correlated, and on the complementarity of genes and preventive efforts in the survival function.
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
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Longevity, genes and efforts: An optimal taxation approach to prevention
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Résumé |
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This paper applies the analytical tools of optimal taxation theory to the design of the optimal subsidy on preventive behaviours, in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on preventive expenditures and on longevity genes. Public intervention can be here justified on three grounds: corrections for misperceptions of the survival process and for externalities related to individual preventive behaviour, and redistribution across both earnings and genetic dimensions. The optimal subsidy on preventive expenditures is shown to depend on the combined impacts of misperception, externalities and self-selection. It is generally optimal to subsidize preventive efforts to an extent depending on the degree of individual myopia, on how productivity and genes are correlated, and on the complementarity of genes and preventive efforts in the survival function.
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Auteur(s) |
Marie-Louise Leroux
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, Pierre Pestieau
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
, Grégory Ponthière
2, 4
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CORE -
Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain]
( 48233 )
- 34, Voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgique
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PSE -
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 139754 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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CREPP -
Center of Research in Public Economics and Population Economics
( 143557 )
- Belgique
4
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
5
CEPR -
Center for Economic Policy Research
( 143559 )
- Royaume-Uni
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Non spécifiée
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Date de publication |
2011-01
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Volume |
30
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Page/Identifiant |
62-76
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Numéro |
1
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Public visé |
Scientifique
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Sous-type de document pour les Articles |
Research article
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Version du document |
version éditeur
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Mots-clés |
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Genetic background, Misperception, Optimal taxation, Prevention, Survival prospects
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DOI | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.10.003 |
ProdINRA | 316602 |
Pubmed Id | 21093083 |
UT key WOS | 000288641300006 |
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