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The full insurance hypothesis states that shocks to the firm's performance do not affect workers' compensation. In … principal-agent models withmoral hazard, firms trade off insurance and incentives to induce workers to supply the optimal level … of insurance varies by type of worker and firm in ways that are consistent with principal-agent models but are hard to …
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This paper is about how to evaluate credit and insurance programs like the Gramee Bank in Bangladesh; Accio, Prodem …
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Theory suggests that people facing higher uninsurable background risk buy more insurance against other risks that are … insurance increases with earnings uncertainty. …
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Nunn (2008) found a negative relationship between past slave exports and economic performance within Africa. Here we investigate these findings and the suggested causal pathway in further detail. Extending the sample period back in time we reveal that the coefficient on slave exports did not...
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