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This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … insurance if shocks are observable. Depending on insurance design, there is also evidence for persistence of this effect even if …
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …
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We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk … drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
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Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes and economic experiments have revealed that most people have a preference for redistribution that is not merely inspired by self-interest. Interestingly, little is known on how these preferences interact with preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548714
We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk … drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435266
We study the factors that predict medical malpractice ("med mal") insurance premia, using national data from Medical … across states at a given time and within states across time. Our results suggest that insurance companies do not fully adjust …
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-cost individuals out of the Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) markets is expected to reduce federal expenditures for Advanced Premium Tax …
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) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no firing cost effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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