insurance and saving amounts. Agents differ in income, probability of becoming dependent and of receiving family help. Social … agents determines whether they prefer social or private insurance. Family support crowds out the demand for both social and …, especially, private insurance, as strong prospects of family help drive the demand for private insurance to zero. The …

This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we … assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between … adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … not for females. This effect persists when we include controls for onset of other health conditions, two of which are …

either 'public sector funding' and 'family bailout' crowd out individual incentives to seek insurance. This paper aims to … LTC funding sources (including private insurance, social insurance and the family). The theoretical model shows that, when … is the case when intra-family moral hazard is integrated in the insurance decision. Evidence from expectations data …

specifications, including family fixed effects …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …