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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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Welfare analysis in insurance markets

Rothschild, Casey G. - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 49 (2024) 1, pp. 36-58

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EU jobs at highest risk of COVID-19 social distancing: will the pandemic exacerbate labour market divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri - 2020

This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...

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Key links in network interactions: assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022

ranging from ex ante route-specific travel restrictions to ex post health measures based on travel histories, and from the …

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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics

Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022

Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...

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COVID-19 relief programs and compliance with confinement measures

Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2021

We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking citizens' movements drawn from mobile devices and vehicles'...

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Job loss and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021

Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food security of families. This research explores the...

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Is subjective well-being insured against income shocks? : evidence from 20-year panel data in South Korea

Kim, Seonghoon; Ahn, Taehyun; Kim, Seonghoon - 2024

Using 20 years of nationally representative panel data in South Korea, we estimate how life satisfaction responds to income shocks. We document that unexpected income changes significantly impact an individual's life satisfaction, and the magnitudes depend on the persistence of income shocks. We...

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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers, and the family

Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...

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