We introduce financial education that helps potential retail consumers of a suboptimal insurance product with shrouded attributes ask the right questions, and provide rules of thumb to evaluate theproduct. Our intervention reduces the potential demand for the suboptimal product. We use a model...

The aim of this paper was to conduct a survey among residents of an unauthorized settlement in Delhi, and calculate the poverty premium (if any) being paid for a basket of services comprising water, power, education, health, sanitation, housing, and finance. Poverty premium here is defined as...