ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVORS INSURANCE.

This article develops a heterogeneous agents model to analyze the effects of Social Security survivors insurance. The model features a negative mortality–income gradient, asymmetric information of individual mortality rates, and a warm‐glow bequest motive that varies by age and family structure. The...

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Published in:	International Economic Review Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 2043 - 2074
Main Author:	Li, Yue
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2018
Subjects:	Social security Life insurance Insurance exchanges Economic research Financial management
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