demand for insurance for tree crops is much larger than for non-tree crops. Crop insurance has a small but significant … negative effect on prices of insured crops. This last finding is consistent with the view that demand for such highly …

opportunities to purchase rainfall index insurance, or a combination of the two. Demand for index insurance is strong, and insurance …, farmers are able to find resources to increase expenditure on their farms. Demand for insurance in subsequent years is …'s social network, as well as with recent poor rain in their village. Both investment patterns and the demand for index …

experiment. Given that the potential impacts of insurance for small scale farmers are high, and yet demand for conventionally …

find that both labor demand and equilibrium wages become more rainfall sensitive when cultivators are offered rainfall …

We develop an estimator for the parameters of a utility function that has interactions between the unobserved demand … contraction can still be used to recover the mean utility term that now contains both the demand error and the interactions with … and we show together they are sufficient for identification of all of the demand parameters. A major advantage of our …