whether benefits affect men and women equally. Using a randomized field experiment in Senegal and Burkina Faso, we compare … male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings … instruments. We found that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in …

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 …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation … Ethiopia. Weaker evidence suggests migrants are additionally motivated to remit as a form of self-insurance against own shocks …

We conduct a framed field experiment in rural Ethiopia to test the seminal hypothesis that insurance provision induces … farmers made this decision in the presence of a stylized weather-index insurance contract. Insurance was found to have some …

lending services but may also offer other financial services such as insurance. These independent organizations are based in …

insurance markets, especially in countries that do not have a unique identification system, where identity fraud—the use of … are less developed, the potential for sick individuals without healthcare coverage to use the insurance policy of a friend … or relative does exist. The response of lenders and insurance companies has been to restrict the supply of such services …

estimates or locally appropriate weather indices. These instruments could replace traditional crop insurance at a lower cost to …