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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
) through both a savings channel and an effective labor supply channel. The effects can be quantitatively large if the …
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The Competitive Saving Motive : Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2010
The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … new competitive saving motive: As the sex ratio rises, Chinese parents with a son raise their savings in a competitive … manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other …
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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
In discussing the paradoxical violation of expected utility theory that now bears his name, Maurice Allais noted that individuals tend to “greatly value” payoffs that are certain. Allais' observation would seem to imply that people will undervalue insurance relative to the predictions of...
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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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The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso
Stoeffler, Quentin; Carter, Michael; Guirkinger, Catherine - 2022
This paper examines whether agricultural insurance can boost investment by small scale farmers in West Africa. We 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...
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When a Nudge Isn't Enough : Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers
Bronchetti, Erin Todd - 2011
Recent evidence suggests that the default options implicit in economic choices (e.g., 401(k) savings by white … effect of defaults on savings among a highly policy-relevant population: low-income tax filers. In the control condition, tax … filers could choose (i.e., opt in) to receive some of their federal tax refund in the form of U.S. Savings Bonds. In the …
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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
Curtis, Chadwick - 2011
This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We undertake a quantitative investigation using an overlapping generations (OLG) model where agents live for 85 years. Consumers begin to exercise decision making when they are 18....
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