'They are Not the Ones Facing a Life Changing Choice': Public Attitudes to Anti-Reproductive Choice ('Pro-Life') Protests

Assisted suicide: pro-choice or anti-life?

The argument that acceptance of assisted suicide is an outgrowth of respect for personal autonomy departs from the traditional American value that holds life more basic than freedom and serves freedom by discouraging rather than assisting self-destruction. The sociological argument that removal of the taboo against assisted suicide will lead to the destructive expansion of the right to kill th...

Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life: Women of Color and Reproductive Justice

On the choice of public pensions when income and life expectancy are correlated

The paper presents a model where public pensions are determined by majority voting. Voters differ by age and income. Moreover, life expectancy increases with income. Depending on the strength of the link between contributions and benefits, and the relationship between income and life expectancy, individually optimal tax rates may increase or decrease with income. If they decrease, high tax rate...

Prenatal Screening, Reproductive Choice, and Public Health

One widely held view of prenatal screening (PNS) is that its foremost aim is, or should be, to enable reproductive choice; this is the Pure Choice view. The article critiques this position by comparing it with an alternative: Public Health Pluralism. It is argued that there are good reasons to prefer the latter, including the following. (1) Public Health Pluralism does not, as is often supposed...

Portfolio Choice and Life Insurance

Portfolio Choice and Life Insurance We study a class of portfolio choice problems that combine life insurance and labor income, within the optimal control framework pioneered by Merton (1969, 1971). Our model differs from previous research by (i) focusing attention on the correlation between human capital and financial capital, and (ii) modeling the utility of the family as opposed to separatin...