We provide a structured literature review of long-term care (LTC) insurance using main path
analysis, a mathematical tool to identify the most significant paths in a citation network. We …

Older wealth holders spend down assets much more slowly than predicted by classic life-
cycle models. This paper introduces health-dependent utility into a model with incomplete …

Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work,
especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after …

This article reviews economic evidence on health-dependent utility functions and presents
new estimates of utility functions for cancer. Estimates of health-dependent utility functions …

The public debate over disability insurance has centered on concerns about individuals
without severe health conditions receiving benefits. We go beyond health risk alone to …

In a nationally representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey‐based
elicitations of exponential‐growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the …

A growing literature uses now widely-available data on beliefs and expectations in the
estimation of structural models. In this chapter, we review this literature, with an emphasis on …

This paper analyzes the scope of the private market for pandemic insurance. We develop a
framework that explains theoretically how the equilibrium price of pandemic insurance …

We investigate univariate and multivariate risk preferences for health (longevity) and wealth.
We measure attitudes toward correlation and attitudes toward higher order dependence …

We seek to understand how the labor market decisions of the family adjust in response to
plausibly exogenous health shocks. Family members might work less to provide caregiving …