receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and effects of, offering formal index …-based rainfall insurance is studied through a randomized experiment in an environment where the informal risk sharing network can be … risk shows that informal networks lower the demand for formal insurance only if the network indemnifies against aggregate …

social security, consumption of edible items, consumption under PDS system, health, union awareness, time use, household …

-security status and perceived self-health among programme participants which was matched by improved household capacity for health …

In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health insurance to reduce …:[http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426275_file_Fan_Karanb_Mahald_state_health_insurance_FINAL.pdf] …

expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is … examine the impact of health insurance on catastrophic health care payments for six Indian states.[IGIDR WP -2008-016]. …

flood occurring every ten years and smaller ones happening every one-two years. The data is drawn from primary household … insurance framework and econometric modeling is carried out using binary outcomes and multivariate probit estimation through GHK …