This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance …

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non …-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private … of insurance on unobservable effort and saving choices as well as the relative cost of public and private insurance …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their … employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private … increased insurance coverage on workers' outcomes are thus ambiguous. This paper aims to separate worker and insurer responses …

We present a theory of the demand for flood insurance and empirically analyze the effects of the adoption of Risk … Rating 2.0, using individual insurance histories for all NFIP policies. The reform increased exit and reduced entry, both in … the flood zone and its periphery. The reform had highly heterogeneous effects on insurance costs and triggered adjustments …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical … Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents …-income families, and for the residents in the relatively poor western region. -- urban China ; health insurance ; health care …

Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather … related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development …. -- Weather Index Insurance ; policy evaluation ; Mexico …

; health insurance ; social learning ; social effect …