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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 …
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In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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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 …
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causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients …
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We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their … two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is provided by government authority and is designed to help small firms with … that the minimum cost of the present insurance scheme is similar to about 1100 man-years. On top of that comes a …
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with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a negative shock is sufficiently incomplete, then … standard functional form restrictions ensure that individual objective functions are optimized by an effort and insurance … combination that is unique and satisfies first- and second-order conditions. Modeling insurance incompleteness in terms of costly …
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We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …-out effects in the first setting with strategic motives, while there are even crowding-in effects due to insurance availability in …
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, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …
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We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … social insurance programs. As we do not find additional screening effects on health at the point of the award decision, we …
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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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