“El sector asegurador tiene una importancia creciente para la economía. En la medida que un país avanza en su proceso de desarrollo, los mayores niveles de inversión y el dinamismo de la activada económica involucran cada vez mayores riesgos. El tamaño del sector asegurador colombiano...

En este trabajo se estima la disposición a pagar y la demanda potencial en Lima Metropolitana de los usuarios potenciales no pobres de seguros similares a SiSalud, los cuales están concentrados en los niveles de ingresos medio bajo y bajo. La hipótesis de la investigación es que el Estado...

Este artículo se distingue de otros que tratan sobre la eficacia y eficiencia de la seguridad social por discutir la eficiencia a partir de la tipificación de funciones de producción y, sobretodo, por incorporar al ciclo económico en el análisis del funcionamiento del IPSS, al sostener que...

Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...

Employer-provided health insurance in the United States is suspected of restricting job mobility, resulting in job lock. Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine whether employer-based health insurance discourages job...

Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both are time consuming activities that can be produced within the household or bought at the market and are, thus, connected through the intertemporal budget constraint of the...

This study considers market entry determinants for both for-profit and non-profit at-home long-term care providers in Japan. It examines market structure incentives and barriers to entry using a panel dataset of 48 Japanese municipalities for the 2003-2011 period. Estimation results show that...

I study a model of a representative individual who has a motive for leaving bequests and is at risk of needing long-term care in old age. I assume - as is typical for OECD countries - that the individual is not fully insured against this risk. Moreover, at realization the individual is unable to...