This paper addresses the desirability of providing in-kind transfers as a screening device to facilitate redistribution of income from able to disabled persons within a social insurance system. An optimal policy--consisting of cash transfers, income-contingent in-kind transfers of one good...

This paper considers partnership formation, partnership dissolution and reciprocity-based cooperation by couples in the form of voluntary transfers to smooth consumption. While risk sharing is one benefit of having a partner, it is also limited by the (endogenous) risk of separation. The...