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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062867
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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Insurance in extended family networks
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518713
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Insurance in extended family networks
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503459
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Insurance in extended family networks
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina - 2018
We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880021
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480029
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Insurance in Extended Family Networks
Attanasio, Orazio - 2018
We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915595
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Insurance in Extended Family Networks
Attanasio, Orazio - 2015
We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024878
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Insurance in Extended Family Networks
Attanasio, Orazio - 2015
We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insured, having accounted for public insurance programs. We apply our framework to extended family networks in the United … insurance for such idiosyncratic shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025562
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020
opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433427