Ami Ko
My first name is pronounced as [Ah-Mee]
Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
Department of Economics
Research Interests
Social and family insurance; Aging; Insurance market design and regulations.
Email: ami.ko@georgetown.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [Click here]
Publications
Dynamic Pricing Regulation and Welfare in Insurance Markets
accepted, Journal of Political Economy
with Naoki Aizawa, 2024
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
Review of Economic Studies, Volume 89, Issue 4, July 2022, p.1993–2025
Working Papers
Marital Transitions, Housing, and Long-Term Care in Old Age
revise and resubmit at Quantitative Economics
with Minsu Chang, 2023
[Paper]
Partial Entry and Anticompetitive Market Segmentation in the ACA Marketplaces
revised and resubmitted at Journal of Health Economics
with Hanming Fang, 2024
[Paper]
Previous version: Pricing Regulation and Insurer Entry on the ACA Health Insurance Marketplaces [Paper]
Work in Progress
Childcare and Long-Term Care: A Tale of Altruism and Strategic Motives within the Family
with Chao Fu and Chamna Yoon
Abstract: We develop and estimate a dynamic model that captures the interactions between grandparents' provision of childcare and their daughters' caregiving for the elderly over the life cycle. Our model accounts for both altruistic and strategic motives underlying the intergenerational time transfers, which we disentangle using data from multiple sources. We use the estimated model to examine the welfare implications of childcare and long-term care policies.