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Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster

Ingwersen, Nicholas; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with rich population-representative longitudinal survey data...

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Risk Pooling and Precautionary Saving in Village Economies

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shrinivas, Aditya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose a new method to test for efficient risk pooling that allows for intertemporal smoothing, non-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for precautionary savings by the aggregate risk pooling group....

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...

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Determinants of Health Insurance Enrollment and Health Expenditure in Ghana : An Empirical Analysis

Adjei-Mantey, Kwame; Horioka, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper analyzes the determinants of health insurance enrollment and health expenditure in Ghana using micro data … from wave 7 of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 7) with emphasis on the role of risk preferences and the … in Ghana because its public health insurance system (the National Health Insurance Scheme or NHIS) is, in theory …

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Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation

Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...

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Why Do Europeans Save? Micro-Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), which is conducted by the European Central Bank. We find that the rank ordering of saving motives differs greatly depending on what criterion is used to rank them. For...

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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...

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Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers : Experimental Evidence From Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan

Wagner, Zachary; Moucheraud, Corrina; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate disparities. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention to reduce family planning provider bias towards young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and...

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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and...

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Randomized Entry

Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Ghana, we implement a three-step design that randomizes the entry of new financial mobile money vendors, who also sell non …

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