educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

While there is a fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the … whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … hypothesize that this difference results from the fact that although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face …

whether demand behaves as predicted with respect to price, the basis of the hedge, and risk aversion using data from a … randomized control trial in which price and basis risk was varied for a series of hedging products offered to farmers. We find … that demand behaves as predicted, with demand falling with price and basis risk, and appearing hump-shaped in risk aversion …

educated, rich, and proactive individuals were more likely to purchase insurance. Risk aversion was associated with low … risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance …

Farmers in rural Bangladesh face multiple sources of uninsured risk to agricultural production and household assets. In … group savings does not alter demand for insurance, though group savings is found to be a particularly popular risk …