Over)insuring Modest Risks

By Justin R. Sydnor. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences

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Expectations-Based Reference-Dependent Life-Cycle Consumption (2017, background): “Suggestive evidence is provided by Crawford and Meng (2009) on labor supply, Pope and Schweitzer (2011) on golf players’ performance, and Sydnor (2010) on deductible choice.”
A Behavioral Analysis of Stochastic Reference Dependence (2016, background): “In related work, Freeman (2012) characterizes Kőszegi and Rabin’s (2007) notion of preferred personal equilibrium. and Kahneman 1992) but without the effects of probability weighting.”
Optimal insurance under rank‐dependent utility and incentive compatibility (2015, neutral): “Sydnor (2010) investigated how people choose the deductible decisions between $100, $250, $500, and $1,000.”
Reference-Dependent Preferences: Evidence from Marathon Runners (2014, background): “…(Tovar, 2009), game shows (Post, Van den Assem, Baltussen, and Thaler, 2008), insurance (Barseghyan, Molinari, O’Donoghue, and Teitelbaum, 2013; Sydnor, 2010), sports (Berger and Pope, 2011; Pope and Schweitzer, 2011), framing and social comparisons in organizations (Card, Mas, Moretti, and…”
Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data (2012, background): “In social insurance, Wolpin (1987), Hansen and · Imrohoro1⁄4 glu (1992), Wang and Williamson (1996), and Hopenhayn and Nicolini (1997) are inuential examples of such work.”
Rationality of Choices in Subsidized Crop Insurance Markets (2017, neutral): “For example, in auto and home insurance, people tend to buy lower deductible policies than should be optimal for them (e.g., Rabin and Thaler 2001; Sydnor 2010), that is, they overinsure.”
YOLO: Mortality Beliefs and Household Finance Puzzles (2015, neutral): “, and Sydnor, J. (2015). Do individuals make sensible health insurance decisions? evidence from a menu with dominated options.”
Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary (2017, neutral): “We sketch a simple model which highlights three robust predictions of the referencedependent job search model which are not shared by the standard model, even with unobserved heterogeneity.”
Risk Aversion, Risk Behavior, and Demand for Insurance: A Survey (2013, background): “and Einav (2007) the demand for automobile insurance, and Sydnor (2010) the demand for property insurance.”