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Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor); … - 2004

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An ordered Tobit model of market participation : evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia

Bellemare, Marc F. (contributor); … - 2005

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Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya : The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) Model

Stephens, Emma C. - 2011

Kenya. System dynamics modeling is well-suited to examining the complex interactions and feedback between farm …

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Index Based Livestock Insurance for Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands : The Marsabit Pilot

Mude, Andrew - 2013

In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …

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Insuring Against Drought‐Related Livestock Mortality : Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya

Mude, Andrew G. - 2013

Northern Kenya from the considerable drought‐related livestock mortality risk that they face. Detailing the conditions that … make the pastoral economy in Northern Kenya an ideal candidate for the provision of index‐based insurance products, the … district of Northern Kenya in early 2010 …

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Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2008

Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) regularly confront climatic shocks triggering massive herd die-offs and loss of scarce wealth. On the surface, it appears puzzling that pastoralists do not make extensive use of livestock markets to offload animals when climatic...

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Cash Transfers and Index Insurance : A Comparative Impact Analysis from Northern Kenya

Jensen, Nathaniel Duane - 2018

exogenous variation in program participation and panel data from Kenya to compare the causal impacts of a cash transfer program …

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How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance : Evidence from Northern Kenya

Jensen, Nathaniel Duane - 2018

Weather-related shocks are a major threat to the health and livelihoods of vulnerable farmers and herders in low-income, arid, and semi-arid regions of the world. Index insurance represents a promising tool for mitigating the impacts of such risk but in practice has exhibited low uptake rates by...

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Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures : Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers

Jagnani, Maulik - 2020

We present evidence that farmers adjust agricultural inputs in response to within-season temperature variation, undertaking defensive investments to reduce the adverse agroecological impacts of warmer temperatures. Using panel data from Kenyan maize growing households, we find that higher...

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Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics : Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru

Lybbert, Travis J. - 2015

experiments in Morocco, Peru, and Kenya …

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