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A Test of the Usefulness of Policy Information in Ranking Life Insurance Alternatives
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This article is published in Journal of Risk and Insurance.The article was published on 1976-03-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life insurance & Ranking (information retrieval).read more
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The Price Elasticity of Demand for Whole Life Insurance
TL;DR: In this article, a real price index is created for whole life insurance sold in the United States from 1953 to 1979, and it is shown that new purchases of whole-life insurance are negatively related to changes in this cost index, contrary to what has been widely accepted in the insurance literature.
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Expense preference behavior in mutual life insurers
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of alternative ownership structures, stock versus mutual, on the cost of production for firms in the life insurance industry is studied by means of a multiproduct cost function.
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The Nature and Causes of Variation in Insurance Policy Yields: Whole Life and Universal Life
James M. Carson,Mark D. Forster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined policy (Linton) yields of two popular forms of cash value life insurance (whole life and universal life) for the period 1988 to 1998.
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An exploratory investigation of how cultural attitudes relate to life insurance holdings: A cross-cultural comparison
J.D. Wharton,Howard R. Harmatz +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated how cultural attitudes related to life insurance differences between two cultural groups: 331 male Canadians from Winnipeg, Manitoba and 291 male Americans from Grand Forks, North Dakota, and found that cultural attitudes bore the same functional relationship to per capita dollars of life insurance holdings in both subject groups.