that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure … donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the … insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …

We investigate the economic impact of stochastic endogenous extreme events and insurance in a growth model. Our … analytical results and computational experiments show that i) transparency of the insurance sector is the decisive requisite for … insurance fairly is preferable to an insurance industry which provides insurance with an overhead. …