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Risk modeling concepts relating to the design and rating of agricultural insurance contracts
Goodwin, Barry K. - 2004
"Goodwin and Mahul identify the key issues and concerns that arise in the design and rating of crop yield insurance plans, with a particular emphasis on production risk modeling. The authors show how the availability of data shapes the insurance scheme and the ratemaking procedures. Relying on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522942
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Catastrophe Risk Assessment Methodology
World Bank - 2013
The Pacific Region is one of the most natural disaster prone regions on earth. The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are highly exposed to the adverse effects of climate change and natural hazards, which can result in disasters affecting their entire economic, human, and physical environment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564753
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Valuing mortality and morbidity in the context of disaster risks
L. Cropper, Maureen - 2009
"Benefit-cost analyses of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects are an important tool for evaluating the efficiency of such projects, and an important input into decision making. These analyses, however, often fail to monetize the benefits of reduced death and injury. The authors review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394126
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The demographic and socio-economic distribution of excess mortality during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2009
demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394144
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Fertility response to natural disasters : the case of three high mortality earthquakes
Finlay, Jocelyn E. - 2009
addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394177
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Disease and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jamison, Dean T. (contributor) - 2006 - 2nd ed
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522331
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On the contribution of demographic change to aggregate poverty measures for the developing world
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
and non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522620
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The long-term legacy of the Khmer Rouge period in Cambodia
Walque, Damien de - 2004
contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522889
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Labor effects of adult mortality in Tanzanian households
Beegle, Kathleen - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523373