Cavatorta, Elisa; Pieroni, Luca - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2012
countries. This paper fills this gap. It explores the effect of a background risk on the decision to buy health insurance using … a background risk of food insecurity. When allowing the back-ground risk to vary in intensity, we find that the … propensity to insure is higher as the background risk becomes more intense. These results are robust to alternative indicators of …