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Examining Life Insurance Ownership through Demographic and Psychographic Characteristics

John J. Burnett, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1984 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 3, pp 453
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This article is published in Journal of Risk and Insurance.The article was published on 1984-09-01. It has received 155 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychographic & Life insurance.

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An International Analysis of Life Insurance Demand

Mark J. Browne, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1993 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the factors that lead to variations in the demand for life insurance across nations, and formulate a model of the demand and test the hypotheses of the study.
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Religion and Preferences for Social Insurance

Kenneth Scheve, +1 more
- 02 Jul 2006 - 
TL;DR: The authors argued that individuals who are religious are more likely to prefer lower levels of social insurance than will those who are not religious, and they empirically test their predictions using individual-level data on religiosity, individual-specific data on social insurance preferences, and cross-country data on Social Spending outcomes.
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The Demand for Life Insurance in Mexico and The United States: A Comparative Study

Dale B. Truett, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1990 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the demand for life insurance in Mexico with that in the United States and found that age, education, and level of income affect the demand of life insurance.
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The demand for life insurance in OECD countries

Donghui Li, +3 more
- 01 Sep 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the determinants of life insurance consumption in OECD countries and found that life insurance demand is better explained when the product market and socioeconomic factors are jointly con sidered.
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The Relationship Between Insurance and Economic Development: 85 Empirical Papers for a Review of the Literature

J. François Outreville
- 01 Mar 2013 - 
TL;DR: A review of 85 empirical papers examining the relationship between insurance and economic development, that is, the insurance-growth nexus, is presented in this paper, where the authors have examined the causality links between insurance, economic development and the role of insurance as a significant determinant in the process of economic growth.
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Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests.

Lee J. Cronbach
- 01 Sep 1951 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a general formula (α) of which a special case is the Kuder-Richardson coefficient of equivalence is shown to be the mean of all split-half coefficients resulting from different splittings of a test, therefore an estimate of the correlation between two random samples of items from a universe of items like those in the test.
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Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences

Sidney Siegel
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
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Determinants of Household Life Insurance Premium Expenditures: An Empirical Investigation

J. D. Hammond, +2 more
- 01 Sep 1967 - 
TL;DR: Hammond et al. as discussed by the authors examined the relationship between life insurance premium expenditures and various economic and demographic characteristics of households in the context of cross-sectional data and provided an estimate of the variable coefficients in a linear model and estimates of the income elasticity of premium expenditures.
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Determinants of Young Marrieds' Life Insurance Purchasing Behavior: An Empirical Investigation

Dan R. Anderson, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1975 - 
TL;DR: Nevin et al. as discussed by the authors examined the variables associated with the amount and type of life insurance purchased by a sample of young newly-married couples by means of multiple classification analysis.
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Acquisition and Accumulation of Life Insurance in Early Married Life

Robert Ferber, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1980 - 
TL;DR: Ferber et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the acquisition and accumulation of life insurance by couples in the first eight years of marriage and found that the primary determinant of such purchases was some measure of financial status, particularly the stock of assets or, in the case of term insurance, of debts.