Will of the living dead — The case for a backward-looking welfare function

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2022
Volume: 214
Issue: C

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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Abstract

Many people have preferences over choices taking place after their lifetime. I show that a backward-looking welfare function, keeping preferences of the dead alive, is Pareto-improving and can be sustained as a subgame-perfect equilibrium of the intergenerational game.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:214:y:2022:i:c:s0165176522000817
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-24