IZA Discussion Papers

published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer, R. Palacios. S. Sacchi (eds). Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension (NDC) Schemes, Volume 1: Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market, Chapter 14. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10989

The Accident Externality from Trucking

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Stefan Staubli, Ziyan Chu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10871

Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Juan Pablo Atal, Hanming Fang, Martin Karlsson, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86(3): 697-727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10744

Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Fadima Bocoum, Michael Grimm, Renate Hartwig, Nathalie Zongo

published as 'Can information increase the understanding and uptake of insurance? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 102-111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10378

Addressing Longevity Heterogeneity in Pension Scheme Design and Reform

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Miguel Bravo, Robert Holzmann

published in: Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 6(10):1-21

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10060

On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes

Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge Miguel Bravo, Robert Holzmann

published in: Global Journal of Human Social Sciences-Economics, 2017, Volume 17, Issue 1: 33-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8172

Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market

Edmund Cannon, Giam Pietro Cipriani, Katia Bazar-Rosen

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7251

Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

Hong Liu, Qi Sun, Zhong Zhao

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6920

The Problem of the Uninsured

Isaac Ehrlich, Yong Yin

published in Research in Economics (Elsevier): Ehrlich, Isaac & Yin, Yong, 2018. "The problem of the uninsured," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(1), pages 147-168

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6768

Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Hong Liu, Zhong Zhao

published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020 [Details & Download]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6234

Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico

Alan Fuchs, Hendrik Wolff

published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93 (2), 505–511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5427

Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance: Evidences from Sri Lanka

Mirko Bendig, Thankom Gopinath Arun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5201

Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5060

Disclosure, Trust and Persuasion in Insurance Markets