Access to Credit Reduces the Value of Insurance

Sonia Jaffe, Anup Malani and Julian Reif

No 32395, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We analyze the value of insurance when individuals have access to credit markets. Loans allow consumers to smooth financial shocks over time, decreasing the value of consumption smoothing from insurance. We derive formulas for the value of insurance that can be taken to data, and show how that value depends on individual characteristics and features of loans. We estimate that access to a five-year loan decreases the values of community- and experience-rated insurance for the average beneficiary by $232-$366 (58--61%). Even for the sickest decile, this loan access reduces the value of community-rated insurance by $1,099 (17%).

JEL-codes: D15 G22 G51 I13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-05
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