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We study the factors that predict medical malpractice ("med mal") insurance premia, using national data from Medical … Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we … across states at a given time and within states across time. Our results suggest that insurance companies do not fully adjust …
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, not fully insured, or not directly involved. We show this external cost is capitalized in the insurance market: car … insurance premiums of other road users increase when trucks are added to the road …
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Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their … employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but also increases the financial gains of private … increased insurance coverage on workers' outcomes are thus ambiguous. This paper aims to separate worker and insurer responses …
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This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy … trusting plays an important role. Trust is clearly associated with greater willingness to pay for insurance. Unlike in previous … of breach is negligible. However, as for much B2C insurance marketing, face-to-face selling plays a crucial role in our …
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Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...
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This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences in the distribution of covariates. Our decomposition contains three types of components: (i) the...
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duration models is not straightforward. This paper shows that the original decomposition that uses a linear model can also be … decomposition of some nonlinear models commonly used in applied econometrics including binary choice, duration and Box‐Cox models …
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We present an extension of the numerical approach to empirical optimal taxation allowed by a peculiar structure of a microeconometric model of labour supply that includes a representation of the demand side. This makes it possible to identify optimal tax-transfer rules while accounting for...
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We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal (social welfare maximizing) tax-transfer rules. We consider the class of tax-transfer rules consisting of a universal basic income and a tax defined by a 4th degree polynomial....
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We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades. To proceed, we extend recently developed methods on the...
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