Cai, Jing; de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using data from a randomized experiment in rural China, this paper studies the influence of social networks on weather … insurance adoption and the mechanisms through which social networks operate. To quantify network effects, the experiment offers … the information available about peers’ decisions and using randomized default options, the experiment shows that the …