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Discrete Choice under Risk with Limited Consideration [PDF]
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper is concerned with learning decision-makers’ preferences using data on observed choices from a finite set of risky alternatives. We propose a discrete choice model with unobserved heterogeneity in consideration sets and in standard risk ...
Levon Barseghyan +2 more
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Drilling Like There’s No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper measures the effects of bankruptcy protection on industry structure and environmental outcomes in oil and gas extraction. Using administrative data from Texas, I exploit variation in an insurance requirement that reduced firms’ ability to ...
J. Boomhower
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Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives and Margins
Social Science Research Network, 2016 We analyze optimal hedging contracts and show that, although they are designed for risk–sharing, they can breed risk–taking. Bad news about the hedged risk increases the expected liability of the protection seller, undermining her own risk prevention ...
B. Biais, Florian Heider, Marie Hoerova
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The Socioeconomic Distribution of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
American Economic Review: InsightsWe study how choice quality relates to socioeconomic factors, using population-wide data on health insurance choices and utilization in the Netherlands.
Benjamin Handel +3 more
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The American Economic Review, 2016 Health insurers increasingly compete on their networks of medical providers. Using data from Massachusetts’s insurance exchange, I find substantial adverse selection against plans covering the most prestigious and expensive “star” hospitals.
Mark Shepard
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Long-Term Care Insurance: Information Frictions and Selection
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 This paper conducts a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect against financial risks associated with long-term care needs.
M. Boyer +4 more
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Networks and Mis-allocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
, 2015 We provide an explanation for the large spatial wage disparities and low male migration in India based on the trade-off between consumption smoothing, provided by caste-based rural insurance networks, and the income gains from migration.
Kaivan Munshi, Mark R. Rosenzweig
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 This paper exploits a natural experiment in information provision on US Disability Insurance (DI) applications: the Social Security statement. Although the effect of the statement on DI application was negligible in the general health and retirement ...
Philip Armour
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The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices∗
, 2010 Levon Barseghyan +3 more
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Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021We provide new evidence on households’ labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using ...
Itzik Fadlon, T. Nielsen
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