with the life insurance data, in equilibrium young households are borrowing constrained and under-insured against human … capital risk. A calibrated version of the model can quantitatively account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance … to a substantial increase in the volume of both credit and insurance. …

due to the limited pledgeability of human capital. We show analytically that, consistent with the life insurance data, in … account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance holdings, financial wealth, earnings, and consumption inequality … insurance. …

least insured. We document this risk-insurance pattern in data on life-insurance drawn from the Survey of Consumer Finance …. A calibrated version of the model can quantitatively account for the life-cycle variation of insurance observed in the … US data and implies welfare costs of under-insurance for young households that are equivalent to a 4 percent reduction in …