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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Market Failures and Government Interventions<br />

4. Heterogeneity of risk types → adverse selection in insurance market<br />

5. Ex-ante risk uninsured: cannot contract before birth<br />

6. Equity concerns: health inequality may directly enter social welfare<br />

function<br />

Example: White infant mortality rate is 6 per 1000; black is 14 per<br />

1000.<br />

Black child born in DC has lower chance of reaching first birthday than<br />

one born in Jamaica.<br />

Solution: government provided health insurance/healthcare<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 175 / 207

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