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Bequests and Social Security With Uncertain Lifetimes

Abel, Andrew B. - 1984

The fact that consumers do not know in advance the dates at which they will die effects their individual consumption and portfolio decisions. In general, some consumers will end up leaving bequests at death, even if they have no bequest motive, simply because they happen to die at a time when...

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Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2009

We evaluate several actual and hypothetical sustainable PAYGO pension structures, including: (1) versions of the US Social Security system with annual adjustments of taxes or benefits to maintain fiscal balance; (2) Sweden's Notional Defined Contribution system and several variants developed to...

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Fertility and Social Security

Boldrin, Michele - 2005

The data show that an increase in government provided old-age pensions is strongly correlated with a reduction in fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inspired by...

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Health and Mortality Delta : Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice

Koijen, Ralph - 2011

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …

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The Anatomy of Health Insurance

Cutler, David M. - 1999

This article describes the anatomy of health insurance. It begins by considering the optimal design of health insurance policies. Such policies must make tradeoffs appropriately between risk sharing on the one hand and agency problems such as moral hazard (the incentive of people to seek more...

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Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the Second Best in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1998

The nature, and normative properties, of competition in health care markets has long been the subject of much debate. In particular, policymakers have exhibited a great deal of reservation toward competition in health care markets, as demonstrated by the plethora of regulations governing the...

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The Welfare Economics of Moral Hazard

Arnott, Richard - 1990

This paper shows that, except in certain limiting cases, competitive equilibrium with moral hazard is constrained inefficient. The first section compares the competitive equilibrium and the constrained social optimum in a fairly general model, and identifies types of market failure. Each of the...

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Disentangling Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance

Powell, David - 2016

Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets and understanding the relative importance of each factor is critical for policy. We use claims data from a large firm to isolate moral hazard from plan selection. Previous studies have attempted to...

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Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance

Kowalski, Amanda E. - 2012

Insurance induces a well-known tradeoff between the welfare gains from risk protection and the welfare losses from moral hazard. Empirical work traditionally estimates each side of the tradeoff separately, potentially yielding mutually inconsistent results. I develop a nonlinear budget set model...

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Moral Hazard in Health Insurance : How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

Aron-Dine, Aviva - 2012

We investigate whether individuals exhibit forward looking behavior in their response to the non-linear pricing common in health insurance contracts. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the calendar year face the...

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