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Purchasing life insurance is for the welfare of young children, par-ticularly preteens, who are liquidity constrained. In this paper, we present a life cycle model of life insurance that takes into account the ages of these young beneciaries. We show that, as the child ages, the need for...
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literature that, when there is (only) risk type uncertainty, the optimal GR contract with renewal price set at the actuarially … fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over …
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family, in the event of an untimely death. Ideally, the individual would like to insure the risk of having high future …
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redistribution of accidental bequests and private annuities in general equilibrium. Individuals face longevity risk as there is a …. -- longevity risk ; risk sharing ; overlapping generations ; intergenerational transfers ; annuity markets …
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is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal … insurance. -- remittances ; insurance ; risk management strategies …
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longevity risk, agents want to annuitize their wealth conform the classic result by Yaari (1965). In the first-best case with …
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Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
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