can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

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 …

insurance. I compare models with deterministic and stochastic hazard rate of death to a model without mortality risk. Mortality … influences optimal controls and wealth evolution. The insurance is used to ensure optimal bequest such that there is no … accidental bequest. In the absence of the insurance, the biggest part of bequest is accidental. …