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SELECTION FOR INSURANCE


Book ID
123243919
Publisher
The Lancet
Year
1916
Tongue
English
Weight
368 KB
Volume
187
Category
Article
ISSN
0140-6736

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Initial selection for Permanent Health I
✍ M. Cristina GutiΓ©rrez-Delgado πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1999 πŸ› Elsevier Science 🌐 English βš– 269 KB

We investigate the effect of underwriting during the first few years of a policy's life (the initial selection effect) on the individual Permanent Health Insurance claim inceptions by fitting a generalized linear model. Initial selection is found to be significant and we describe its effect using a

Propitious selection in insurance
✍ David Hemenway πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1992 πŸ› Springer 🌐 English βš– 247 KB

The theory of propitious selection suggests that there are risk-avoiding personalities who both take physical precautions and buy financial security (insurance). Conversely, there are risk seekers who tend to do neither. Survey evidence is presented that is consistent with the theory. Individuals wh