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The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso

Stoeffler, Quentin; Carter, Michael; Guirkinger, Catherine - 2022

conduct a randomized evaluation to analyze the impacts of index insurance for cotton farmers in Burkina Faso. We find no … impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with microeconomic theory, we find significant spillover impacts on investment …

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Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment : Evidence from the Boll Weevil

Baker, Richard B. - 2018

The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton …

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Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance

Ligon, Ethan A. - 2011

The federal government has developed a large number of programs to insure various "specialty crops" over the last two decades; a given program is peculiar to a particular county and crop. This development has been particularly notable in California, because of its size and the diversity of crops...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S. - 2014

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development : Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Cai, Hongbin - 2010

We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second,...

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Insurance Contracts When Individuals “Greatly Value” Certainty : Results from a Field Experiment in Burkina Faso

Serfilippi, Elena - 2018

implemented insurance games with cotton farmers in Burkina Faso. On average, farmer willingness to pay for insurance increases …

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Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014

We estimate the general-equilibrium labor market effects of a large-scale randomized intervention in which we designed and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both cultivators and to agricultural wage laborers allows us to...

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Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of World War I : The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Dissenting Policy

White, Eugene N. - 2015

a reallocation of liquidity to its district during the contraction. Viewing the collapse of the price of cotton, the … of cotton collateral that would precipitate a general panic. In this previously unknown episode, the Federal Reserve … Atlanta Fed was vindicated when the shock to cotton prices proved to be temporary, and the Board conceded that the Reserve …

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Evolving Discretionary Practices of U.S Antidumping Activity

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2021

Previous literature has discussed the procedural biases that exist in U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) dumping margin calculations. This paper examines the evolution of discretionary practices and their role in the rapid increase in average USDOC dumping margins since 1980. Statistical...

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The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much … monopoly power did the United States possess in the world cotton market and what would have been the effect of an optimal … export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple …

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