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Protecting the vulnerable : the tradeoff between risk reduction and public insurance (Inglés)

This article examines a basic question in designing social protection policies: how should a government allocate a fixed budget between these two activities? In the presence of income and risk heterogeneities a simple public insurance scheme that pays a fixed benefit to all households that suffer a negative shock is an effective re-distributional instrument of public policy. This is true even when a well-functioning private insurance market exists...
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