How much is a human life worth ? Michelle Chen links to and discusses a new study which concludes that welfare reform reduced life expectancy. I am reminded of an…

…think that the rate of progress has increased in the USA (look at life expectancy — oh hey he mentioned that). I see he comes back to this in response…

…demographic changes (increasing life expectancy, lower birth rates, and slower growth in wages) responsible for the actuarial deficit. At that time workers would be earning about two hundred more dollars…

…of well-being favor Panama. For example, its people have a longer life expectancy, partly due to its much lower murder rate. The result is that there is a lot of…

Via AngryBear Econ facebook page comes Dr. Robert Waldmann’s discussion of costs of healthcare and life expectancy on Challenging Opinions.             (among several others such…

…the retirement age and indexing it to life expectancy, raising the current $127,200 cap on earnings subject to the payroll tax, and reducing the growth of benefits for higher earners…”…

…judgments or we propose weights. Instead the discussion on both sides is a combination of hard (or hard-ish) numbers for particular indicators, like life expectancy and poverty, and vague aggregations…

…91 years old — if she survives. The average life expectancy for an 85 year old woman is 6.9 years. In other words, she will have nearly a 50% chance…

…the benefits necessary for the people who paid the tax to live in reasonable comfort for their longer life expectancy… longer than that of their parents and grandparents. One tenth…

…given that the US is the only high income nation in the world with a declining life  expectancy. The middle of these, time-seires inside a nation , does not have…