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Better Safe than Sorry? Ex Ante and Ex Post Moral Hazard in Dynamic Insurance Data

Abbring, Jaap; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Zavadil, Tibor - 2008

This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …

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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2008

We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health … insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates … for advantageous selection, largely driven by heterogeneity in education, income and health preferences. Finally, we show …

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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

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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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012

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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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017

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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Disciplining and Screening Top Executives

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2006

Boards of directors face the twin task of disciplining and screening executives. To perform these tasks directors do not have detailed information about executives' behaviour, and only infrequently have information about the success or failure of initiated strategies, reorganizations, mergers...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - 2013

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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Insurance and Information: Firms as a Commitment Device

Bovenberg, A.L.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001

contracts to crowd out implicit insurance, even though the latter yields higher welfare.Integrating the principal-agent and …

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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

Koç, Hale; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

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Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition

Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

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