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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
Liu, Hong; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents …. We also find that this program has improved medical care utilization more for the elderly, for the low- and middle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252288
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The Problem of the Uninsured
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
which these non-market alternatives can account for the fraction of the non-elderly adults who are uninsured, and estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695855
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Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Moreau, Nicolas; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702013
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Child Welfare and Old-Age Security in Female Headed Households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703296
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
past demographic catastrophes has left a population which is both young (few elderly) and old (one of the oldest working … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic … group, we actually find that transfers flow strongly from the elderly to their adult children, whom are typically in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763881
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703033
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A Constitutional Theory of the Family
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances in which a constitution is renegotiation-proof. Second, it introduces parental altruism. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762141
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Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in "job lock." Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine job-lock by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884227
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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply
Dague, Laura; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Leininger, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884326
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123402