Most risk-sharing tests on developing country data are conducted at the level of the village; generally, the full risk …-sharing hypothesis is rejected. This paper uses detailed data on all insurance networks within a village in Tanzania; networks are not … clustered but largely overlapping. We test whether full risk-sharing occurs within these networks. We find that even within …

This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …

and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and …