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We re-examine insurance purchases when life insurance and life annuities carry loads. The life cycle literature says that it is optimal to participate in these insurance markets throughout life, even under loads. A life annuity phase backs directly onto a life insurance phase. However, the...
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Whereas there is ample evidence that life-contingent income products (life annuities) have the potential to improve individual welfare, combining them with health-contingent income products (resulting in so-called life care annuities) would serve to further increase welfare for individuals who...
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This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the retirement age for a group of workers but not for others. By...
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