perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

) maize was recently introduced. A field experiment, eliciting relative risk aversion, loss aversion and subjective … drought and other shocks. More risk averse households were more likely to have adopted DT maize, less likely to have adopted … other improved maize varieties and less likely to have dis-adopted traditional local maize. Exposure to past drought shocks …

double selection model of school hours, by adding time preferences, risk attitudes and proxies of risks and shocks among the … gambles and consider the past occurrence of shocks to proxy the risk profiles of the households under the assumption that …

panel data from Thailand and Vietnam we develop an empirical approach to quantify our measure. More precisely, we predict …

-headed ones are found to be richer in Thailand, but prone to more severe shocks in both countries. Furthermore, our results …. Using panel data of over 4000 rural households from Thailand and Vietnam, strong evidence of heterogeneity among subgroups … suggest that in Thailand single female-headed households are less vulnerable to poverty than households headed by men. However …

Rural households in emerging market economies are often vulnerable to poverty due to negative shocks and limited … households using the panel survey data of some 2,200 households in Northeast Thailand in the context of the DFG Research Unit 756 …. Empirical observations show that a large share of households suffered shocks mainly related to ecological, economic, health and …

experiment results from two disaster affected communities in rural Cameroon to test two hypotheses: (1) Natural shocks affect …Increasing occurrence of devastating natural shocks has stimulated research interest in the economics of natural … disasters. Much of this scholarly work concentrates on effects of shocks on poverty, risk and vulnerability, and very little on …

experiment results from two disaster affected communities in rural Cameroon to test two hypotheses: (1) Natural shocks affect …Increasing occurrence of devastating natural shocks has stimulated research interest in the economics of natural … disasters. Much of this scholarly work concentrates on effects of shocks on poverty, risk and vulnerability, and very little on …

restoring equilibria   after shocks. But there is a discrepancy between the intent of the   general policy and attempts at its … of disequilibrating   shocks, currency unions outperform flexible currencies by eliminating   the inefficiencies …