Incentives and government relief for ris
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Louis Kaplow
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Article
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1991
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Springer
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English
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Government relief is offered for a wide range of risks--natural disaster, economic dislocation, sickness, and injury. This article explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance. It is shown that government relief is inefficient, even wh