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The value of customized insurance for farmers in rural Bangladesh:
Clarke, Danielle; Das, Narayan C.; de Nicola, Francesca; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
evenly split their endowment between life and disability insurance and agricultural insurance. Demand for area … group savings does not alter demand for insurance, though group savings is found to be a particularly popular risk … this paper, we present results from an experimental demand-elicitation exercise in rural Bangladesh to shed light on …
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Demand for complementary financial and technological tools for managing drought risk:
Ward, Patrick S.; Spielman, David J.; Ortega, David L.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
manage drought risk: weather index insurance and a recently released drought-tolerant rice variety. We illustrate how these … risk management product. Using a discrete choice experiment, we assess farmers’ preferences for these two tools … independent of insurance, largely due to the yield penalty under normal conditions. When bundled with insurance, however, farmersâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272213
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Adoption of weather index insurance: Learning from willingness to pay among a panel of households in rural Ethiopia
Hill, Ruth Vargas; Hoddinott, John; Kumar, Neha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
risk reduced demand for insurance, particularly when the price of the contract was high, and that provision of insurance … insurance among 1,400 Ethiopian households that have been tracked for 15 years as part of the Ethiopia Rural Household Survey …. This provides both historical and current information with which to assess the determinants of demand. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850561
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Consumer acceptance of provitamin A orange maize in rural Zambia:
Meenakshi, J. V.; Banerji, A.; Manyong, Victor; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers' willingness to pay. It attempts to examine the impact of nutrition information, comparing the use of simulated radio versus community leaders in transmitting the nutrition message, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650929
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Community, inequality, and local public goods: Evidence from School Financing in South Africa
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Nishiyama, Shinichi - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community's ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997315
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Joint estimation of farmers' stated willingness to pay for agricultural services:
Ulimwengu, John; Sanyal, Prabuddha - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
In many developing countries, to sustain the provision of agricultural services to farmers, many have advocated the use of service fees. Successful implementation of such schemes requires understanding of determinants of farmers' willingness to pay. In this paper we use a multivariate probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862322
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Valuing the environment in developing countries: Modeling the impact of distrust in public authorities' ability to deliver public services on the citizens' willingness to pay for i...
Birol, Ekin; Das, Sukanya - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
In this paper, we employ the choice experiment method to estimate local citizens' valuation of a public intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862325
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How safe is my food?: Assessing the effect of information and credible certification on consumer demand for food safety in developing countries
Birol, Ekin; Roy, Devesh; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The literature regarding consumer demand for safer food in developing countries is scant, and the general assumption is … that these consumers' willingness to pay (WTP, as an indicator of their demand) is constrained by their low ability to pay … required to ensure that ATP translates into WTP. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a randomized market experiment in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862329
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Farmers’ preferences for climate-smart agriculture an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain:
Taneja, Garima; Pal, Barun Deb; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The research outputs will be helpful in integrating farmers’ choices with government programs in the selected regions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132693
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Do Network Externalities Really Matter In Consumer Behavior ? Experimental Framework For Measuring Willingness To Pay For Network Size
Cadario, Romain; Le Nagard, Emmanuelle; Desmet, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Consequences of network externalities, such as product growth and innovation diffusion, are widely studied in marketing literature. However, there is little empirical research that examines the existence of such network externalities in consumer behavior. When and how do consumers take into...
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