Abstract

The omission of the asset value of life insurance policies in computing household assets would underestimate household wealth and therefore bias measures of wealth inequality. We propose a method to estimate the cash value of household life insurance assets by combining the Lee-Carter model, which forecasts mortality risk, and the concept of the net level premium reserve in actuarial science. This method is readily applicable using household survey data.

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