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Despite its importance for the analysis of life-cycle behavior, stock ownership by households is poorly understood. Among other approaches to the investigation of this puzzle, recent research has elicited the expectations of stock market returns by individuals. This paper reports findings from a...
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There is ample empirical evidence documenting widespread financial illiteracy and limited pension knowledge. At the same time, the distribution of wealth is widely dispersed and many workers arrive on the verge of retirement with few or no personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the...
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This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...
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Netherlands is much higher than in, for example, the US …
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We present new evidence on financial literacy and retirement preparation in the Netherlands based on two surveys …
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retirement and rates of participation in various earnings replacing programs in the Netherlands. It presents an overview of …
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In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) on behavior of existing DI recipients. We find evidence of substantial "social support...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty …
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for cost containment and quality improvement. Typically, these policies include premium regulation supplemented with risk …, however, that even the state-of-the-art risk equalization models undercompensate some risk groups and overcompensate others …, leaving systematic incentives for risk selection. A natural approach to reducing under or overcompensation for a group is to …
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The impact of insurer competition on welfare, negotiated provider prices, and premiums in the U.S. private health care industry is theoretically ambiguous. Reduced competition may increase the premiums charged by insurers and their payments made to hospitals. However, it may also strengthen...
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