Navigating Higher Education Insurance: An Experimental Study on Demand and Adverse Selection"
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- Sidhya Balakrishnan & Eric Bettinger & Michael S. Kofoed & Dubravka Ritter & Douglas A. Webber & Ege Aksu & Jonathan S. Hartley, 2024. "Navigating Higher Education Insurance: An Experimental Study on Demand and Adverse Selection," NBER Working Papers 32260, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Ege Aksu & Sidhya Balakrishnan & Eric Bettinger & Jonathan S. Hartley & Michael S. Kofoed & Dubravka Ritter & Douglas A. Webber, 2024. "Navigating Higher Education Insurance: An Experimental Study on Demand and Adverse Selection," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2024-024, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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Keywords
education finance; education insurance; income insurance; adverse selection; financial aid; income-share agreement; ISA; student loan; student debt; higher education; income-driven repayment; IDR; income-contingent financing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
- H81 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Governmental Loans; Loan Guarantees; Credits; Grants; Bailouts
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2024-04-22 (Experimental Economics)
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