In this paper, we investigate the nexus between life insurance and suicide behavior using OECD cross-country data from 1980 to 2002. Through semiparametric instrumental variable regressions with fixed effects, we find that for the majority of observations, there exists a positive relationship between suicide rate and life insurance density (premium per capita). Since life insurance policies pay...

The paper investigates how ex-ante uncertainty about a government policy with redistributive consequences will influence the proportion of agents in favor of it, if agents can trade policy contingent securities. If a subset of agents can insure against policy uncertainty, support for redistributive policies is always smaller than in a case where no insurance is available. Both the relation betw...

this article is going to survey the relationship between culture and efficiency in insurance companies including asia, iran, alborz and dana as well as their branches. in order to measure the efficiency, data envelopment analysis (dea) has been used. in a way that the amount of efficiency in respect to input and output of branches has been computed, then by using the amounts, the weighted avera...

This paper examines the influence of the national health insurance scheme on elderly demand for family-based care and support. It contributes to the growing concern on the rapid increase in the elderly population globally using micro-level social theory to examine the influence the health insurance has on elderly demand for family support. A qualitative case study approach is applied to constru...

The main objective of this study is to find out if organizational characteristics intervene in the relationship between CRM and organizational performance in the Nigerian insurance industry. Relevant literature was reviewed and a model consisting of fourteen variables was conceptualized and tested by means of empirical data collected through a questionnaire. A total of one hundred and eighty (1...

drug and health literacy is a key determinant of health outcomes. there are several tools to assess drug and health literacy. the objective of this article is to determine drug literacy level and its relationships with other factors using a single screening tool. a cross- sectional survey was conducted among 1104 people in qazvin province, iran. based on the proportional-to-size method, partici...

the current study aims to investigate the factors affecting  development of the services brand identity in insurance industrial. therefore, considering the importance of brand identity, and in order to succeed in today's competitive market, in this paper, the relevant literature in the field of brand identity development is reviewed to investigate the effect of its dimension on development...