-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions - even those providing the same level of insurance - can lead to …

nets which are still absent in Indonesia?as in most developing countries?can give priority to the insurance of other types …

To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the … rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged 15-21 years provide unilateral insurance to their origin … household. Distinguishing by destination and economic activity I show that the level of insurance increases when migrants and …

We employ a novel approach to investigate the reasons for a low demand for agricultural insurance. We confirm that … farmers systematically undervalue agricultural insurance. First, we find that private transfers, mainly from family members …, explain under-valuation of agricultural insurance. Second, membership of a farmer's union, interpreted as a form of social …

often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services … insurance and a simple ecological-economic model, we derive the economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience and study how … insurance value of resilience is negative (positive) for low (high) levels of resilience, (ii) it increases with the level of …

lifetime tax reform linking annual taxes to previous employment could improve the system's insurance capabilities, albeit at …

lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against … risk. Progressive taxation of annual earnings provides little insurance against lifetime earnings risk. The lifetime … insurance effects of taxation may be improved by moving to a progressive tax on lifetime earnings. Similarly, the lifetime …

lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against … risk. Progressive taxation of annual earnings provides little insurance against lifetime earnings risk. The lifetime … insurance effects of taxation may be improved by moving to a progressive tax on lifetime earnings. Similarly, the lifetime …

would provide more insurance if based on lifetime instead of annual earnings. Requiring wealthy individuals to repay social … assistance received when younger would strengthen the insurance and redistributive functions of social assistance. …