In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … robust link between financial confidence and savings behavior. In particular, the savings of underconfident individuals are …

In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing … robust link between financial confidence and savings behavior. In particular, the savings of underconfident individuals are …

Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of …

realized expenditures to some extent, there is no evidence that expectations influence the decision to take out health …

In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather-index insurance markets in Ethiopia, were …

true preferences? And how much does variation in their limited numeracy skills contribute to decision errors and the … whether Rank Dependent Utility (RDU) does better in the analysis of decision errors and risk preferences in our context. We … try to answer these research questions based on a large sample of rural youth business group members from Ethiopia based …

Nutrition Survey, we find that the social network effects in the enrollment decision are large and significant. Furthermore, we …