Background: In Switzerland, age is the predominant driver of solidarity transfers in risk adjustment (RA). Concerns … systems of health financing in light of population aging. … to shoulder increasing solidarity burdens. Between 1996 and 2011, monthly intergenerational solidarity payments for young …

This paper explores the interactions between the risk of food insecurity and the decision to health insure in the … Palestinian Territories. The risk of adverse health conditions is insurable; the risk of food insecurity is a background risk and … complementarity between the risk of food insecurity and the propensity to health insure. The predicted conditional probabilities …

This paper studies the life cycle consumption-investment-insurance problem of a family. The wage earner faces the risk … of a health shock that significantly increases his probability of dying. The family can buy term life insurance with …