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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Private Health Insurance and Financial Risk Taking in Spain-The Moderating Effect of Subjective Risk Tolerance.

Inmaculada Aguiar-Díaz, María Victoria Ruiz-Mallorqui

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Inmaculada Aguiar-DíazDepartment of Financial Economics and Accounting, Faculty of Economy, Business and Tourism, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 35001 Las Palmas, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2809-2520
María Victoria Ruiz-MallorquiDepartment of Financial Economics and Accounting, Faculty of Economy, Business and Tourism, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 35001 Las Palmas, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9179-9342
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study focuses on the effect of private health insurance on financial risk taking in Spanish households. According to the arguments related to the background risk, we propose two hypotheses: the first predicts a positive relationship between health insurance and risk taking and the second asserts that attitude to risk moderates this relationship. Spain is a good laboratory because it has a National Health System (NHS) that offers healthcare coverage to the entire population, which could eliminate the effect of health insurance on risk taking. Based on a sample of 6110 households obtained from the Household Finance Survey (EFF), our results confirm both hypotheses. Specifically, we show that private health insurance significantly increases a household's portfolio risk, especially in households with greater risk aversion. The results are concordant with the scarce amount of previous empirical evidence obtained in other contexts and are robust for different subsamples and estimation methods.

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Family CharacteristicsInsurance, HealthDelivery of Health CareHealth ExpendituresRisk-TakingSpainfinancial risk takingfinancial risk tolerancehousehold financeprivate health insuranceSpain

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PMID36498322
PMCPMC9741262
OpenAlexW4310680068

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