envelopment analysis-based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm …Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the …

male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings … policy, this paper investigates which financial products best improve farmers’ productivity, resilience, and welfare, and … 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 … independent of insurance, largely due to the yield penalty under normal conditions. When bundled with insurance, however, farmersâ …€™ valuation of the rice increases. Farmers value insurance on its own, but even more so when bundled with the drought …

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 …

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

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 …