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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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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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This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in...
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consumption insurance. Based on insights from a theoretical model, we propose a new test to detect advance information, which … to a significant overestimation of consumption insurance and even more so at the bottom of the wealth distribution. …
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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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Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … UI choice process. Results show that the causal effect of insurance on the probability of starting up a venture is …
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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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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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