Ami Ko
My first name is pronounced as [Ah-Mee]
Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
Department of Economics
Research Interests
Public Economics, Family Economics, Health Economics
Email: ami.ko@georgetown.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [Click here]
Publications
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
Dynamic Pricing Regulation and Welfare in Insurance Markets [Paper]
with Naoki Aizawa, 2023, revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy.
Marital Transitions, Housing, and Long-Term Care in Old Age [Paper]
with Minsu Chang, 2023.
Pricing Regulation and Insurer Entry on the ACA Health Insurance Marketplaces [Paper]
with Hanming Fang, 2023.
Work in Progress
Childcare and Long-Term Care: A Tale of Altruism and Strategization within the Family
with Chao Fu
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.