patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime' comply with sharing norms, are insured but reduce investment in their …

Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … stimulate exports and growth. Under any currency regime, Zimbabwe needs to adhere to sound macroeconomic policies, avoid …

aspect of the EITC that has received little attention thus far is its role as a public insurance program. Yet, the structure … to both wages and changes in family structure. Our study provides the first quantitative statement about the insurance … demographic risk, but have only limited self-insurance capacity. We use the model to compare outcomes under the EITC to the …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …