Guariglia, Alessandra; Rossi, Mariacristina - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003
This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey for the years 1996 to 2000 to investigate whether individuals in the UK save for precautionary motives against uncertain medical costs. In particular, we test the hypothesis that those individuals who are not covered by private medical...