Insurance Markets for the Elderly

This paper is prepared for Handbook of the Economics of Population Ageing, edited by John Piggott and Alan Woodland. I would like to thank David Bloom, Olivia Mitchell, Edward Norton, and especially two anonymous reviewers and the editors (John Piggott and Alan Woodland), as well as participants in the Harvard-CEPAR Conference for the Handbook contributors for useful comments. I also like to thank my coauthors, Naoki Aizawa, Alessandro Gavazza, Edward Kung, Michael P. Keane and Dan Silverman, whose collaboration led me to better understand the issues discussed in this chapter. Junwen (Caroline) Liu provided capable research assistance on the preparation of this manuscript. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support from NSF Grant SES-0844845. All remaining errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.