Social Insurance Networks
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Social Insurance Networks
Social Insurance Networks Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed effects methodology that accounts for endogenous group formation, contextual interactions, and time-constant as well as time-varying confounders. We report evidence that social...
متن کاملInformal insurance in social networks
This paper studies bilateral insurance schemes across networks of individuals. While transfers are based on social norms, each individual must have the incentive to abide by those norms, and so we investigate the structure of self-enforcing insurance networks. Network links play two distinct and possibly conflictual roles. First, they act as conduits for transfers. Second, they act as conduits ...
متن کاملRisk Management , Insurance and Social Networks in Ghana
Financial support for this research was provided by the United States Agency for International Development’s Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access (SAGA) Project, the Social Science Research Council’s Program in Applied Economics on Risk and Development (through a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation), the Yale Economic Growth Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts...
متن کاملSocial Norms in Social Insurance
We analyze how insurance arrangements, labor supply, moral hazard and outright cheating are affected by social norms. One question is under what conditions norms may improve social welfare. Another is under what conditions people should be allowed to opt out of social insurance. We introduce an informal production sector to analyze the consequences of alternative assumptions about the informati...
متن کاملPolitically sustainable social insurance
Private information underpins a basic social trade-off between incentives and inequality. Normative models of dynamic incentive provision explore the optimal evolution of this trade-off. Many prescribe relentlessly increasing levels of inequality. Indeed, under a variety of standard preference assumptions, an immiseration result obtains: a privileged measure zero set of agents obtain all resour...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Resources
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0022-166X,1548-8004
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.50.4.1081