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This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …
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We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … combine an event study with a difference-in-difference approach applied to Danish register data to quantify the selection. We …
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There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
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presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …
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We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...
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We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
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worker buys an insurance, which gives a constant income and retirement benefits in exchange for the total output. The level …
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insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
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We study an insurance model characterized by a continuum of risk types, private information and a competitive supply … side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … softens adverse selection, but constitutes a welfare loss for the high risks. In contrast to a lemons market intuition, we …
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Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
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