Early-life disaster experience and commercial insurance demand: evidence from the Great Famine in China
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Early experience; The Great Famine; Commercial insurance demand;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G52 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Insurance
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
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