panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use …

10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the … causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using … rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged 15-21 years provide unilateral insurance to their origin …

Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on …, despite this financial shock, long term net worth of families is not affected or may be positively affected, potentially due to …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more … propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk …

, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from … normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The … of a permanent income shock. Compared to existing empirical estimates for the same dataset, our findings suggest that …We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel …