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Institutions and development: a view from below
Pande, Rohini; Udry, Christopher - 2005
In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and growth has largely relied on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264861
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Institutions and Development:A View from Below
Pande, Rohini; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005
In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and growth has largely relied on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558468
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Institutions and development : a view from below
Pande, Rohini; Udry, Christopher - 2005
In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and growth has largely relied on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809737
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Institutions and Development : A View from Below
Pande, Rohini; Udry, Christopher - 2005
In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and growth has largely relied on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060728
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte D'ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
Duflo, Esther; Udry, Christopher - 2003
insurance within households, even with respect to publicly observable weather shocks. Different sources of income are allocated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369206
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte D'ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
Duflo, Esther; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003
insurance within households, even with respect to publicly observable weather shocks. Different sources of income are allocated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738360
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Intrahousehold resource allocation in Côte D'Ivoire : social norms, separate accounts and consumption choices
Duflo, Esther; Udry, Christopher - 2003
insurance within households, even with respect to publicly observable weather shocks. Different sources of income are allocated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610928
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796654
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - Economics Department, Yale University - 2012
. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We … opportunities to purchase rainfall index insurance, or a combination of the two. Demand for index insurance is strong, and insurance … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838898
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - Economics Department, Yale University - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706038