We analyze the demand for medical care and precautionary saving in a framework with uncertainty surrounding the incidence of illness and the effectiveness of medical treatments and a representation of preferences that disentangles ordinal preferences, risk preferences, and intertemporal...

We analyze precautionary saving behavior in a framework with labor and non-labor income risks, an endogenous supply of labor, and a representation of preferences that disentangles attitudes towards risk, attitudes towards intertemporal smoothing, and ordinal preferences for consumption and...