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Existing literature analyzing the choice of received long-term care by frail elderly (65+ years) predominantly focuses on physical and psychological conditions of elderly people as factors that influence the decision for a particular type of care. Until now, however, the regional in-patient...
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that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure … donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the … insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …
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partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …
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levels of exclusion. Pairing our framework with hospital and insurance demand estimates from Ho and Lee (2017), we compare …
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A life care annuity is a bundled insurance product comprised of a life annuity and long-term care insurance. Some … positive correlation between the two risks and the presence of adverse selection in the life care annuity market. We also … address the pricing risk and solvency risk insurance companies face when providing life care annuities …
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Consumer education is often considered an integral part of microinsurance schemes; a win-win solution that benefits both microinsurance practitioners and their clients. It is supposed to help low-income households make sound choices and practitioners stimulate demand. The current lack of...
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