Academic Papers

1900-1959

  • 1905 - AP - The Cost of Life Insurance, Allan H. Willett – 25p
  • 1928 - AP - The Investment Element in Life-Insurance Contracts - Business, by S. H. Nerlove - 22p 
  • 1929 - AP - The Life Insurance Actuary and his Mathematics - Math, by Raymond V. Carpenter - 9p 
  • 1941 - AP - Mathematics for Prospective Teachers in Elementary Schools - Education, by Ralph Mansfield - 4p 

1970s

  • 1972 - AP - An Empirical Investigation of Attitudes Toward the Life Insurance - Marketing, by O. C. Ferrell Jr. - 181p 
  • 1978 - AP - Human Values and the Market The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century, by Viviana A. Zelizer - 21p 

1980s

  • 1980 - AP - Models in Insurance Paradigms Puzzles, Communications and Revolutions - Operations Research, by William S. Jewell - 128p  
  • 1981 - AP - On the Rate Structure of the American Life Insurance Market - Finance, by Ralph A. Winter - 17p 
  • 1981 - AP - The NAIC Model Life Insurance Solicitation Regulation: Measuring the Consumer Impact in New Jersey, by Roger A. Formisano - 22p
  • 1982 - AP - Using Information-Processing Principles in Public Policymaking - Marketing - 21p
  • 1983 - AP - Information Search and Price Variability of Individual Life Insurance - Economics, by Michael B. Mazis and Richard Staelin - 19p 
  • 1983 - AP - The Role of the Professional Association in Constructing a Profession - Sociology, by Judith Peavy Alexander - 175p 
  • 1985 - AP - Universal / Variable Life Insurance: Policy Purchase Decisions, by Stephen P. D’Arcy and Keun Chang Lee - 58p
  • 1986 - AP - Explanatory Style as a Predictor of Productivity and Quitting among Life Insurance Sales Agents - Psychology, by Martin E. P. Seligman and Peter Schulman - 8p
  • 1986 - AP - A Comparison of Universal/Variable Life Insurance with Similar Unbundled Investment Strategies, by Stephen P. D'Arcy - 62p

1990s

  • 1995 - AP - On the Risk of Life Insurance Liabilities Debunking Some Common Pitfalls - Business Finance, by Eric Briys and François de Varenne - 12p 
  • 1997 - AP - Early Interactions Between the Life Insurance Industry and Computer Industries - Technology, by Joanne Yates - 52p 

2000s

  • 2000 - AP - Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive: Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry, by Jeffrey R. Brown and Austan Goolsbee - 30p 
  • 2000 -  AP - The Influence of Compensation and Producer Characteristics on Product Recommendation - Insurance / Communications, by William R. Cupach and James M. Carson - 7p 
  • 2000 - AP - The Nature and Causes of Variation in Insurance Policy Yields - Insurance, by James M. Carson* and Mark D. Forster - 18p 
  • 2004 - AP - Universal Life Insurance - Aspects of the Cash Value Development - Insurance, by Martin Birkenheier - 146p 
  • 2006 - AP - The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance. by Ericson, Richard V. and Aaron Doyle, British Journal of Criminology, 46, 993-1010. - <WishList>
  • 2008 - AP - The Life Insurance Market Asymmetric Information Revisited - Economics, by Daifeng He - 23p 
  • 2008 - AP - Bluffing in Insurance Sales - Ethics, by Hina Butt - 45p

2010s

  • 201x - AP - Universal Life Insurance Duration Measures, by David Lange, Alonzi, Simpkins - 14p 
  • 2010 - AP - Capitalist Development and Civil War, by Michael Mousseau - 15p 
  • 2010 - AP - Consumer Protection in Markets with Advice - Economics, by Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani - 19p 
  • 2012 - AP - Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market - 51p
  • 2012 - AP - Understanding the Shift in Demand for Cash Value Life Insurance - Consumer Economics, by Barry S. Mulholland -  34p
  • 2013 - AP - Behavioral Economics and Insurance Law - Behavioral Economics / Law, by Tom Baker - 28p
  • 2015 - AP - Policyholder Exercise Behavior in Life Insurance: The State of Affairs, by Daniel Bauer - 32p 
  • 2015 - AP - Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents: Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market, Working Paper 12-055, Harvard Business School, by Santosh Anagol, Shayak Sarkar and Shawn Cole - 70p

2020s

  • 2020 - AP - Exploring Universal Life Insurance - Actuarial - 47p
    • digital.wpi.edu/concern/student_works/p2676z121?locale=en
    • Abstract
      • This project focused on exploring Universal Life insurance by learning about its history, components, and process of reserving.
      • To conduct our research, we read several textbooks, study notes and a Valuation Manual.
      • We then created an Excel deliverable of a theoretical UL policy, created a Lesson plan about UL to teach to actuarial students, and a paper that explains the ins and outs of UL from a consumer standpoint and how the mechanics of a UL policy would work for a potential policyholder.