Main changes to US farm programmes under the 2014 Farm Bill aim to strengthen instruments for risk management, both in … diversity of options offered to farmers to manage risk. They also discuss farmers' choices of participation in programmes and … generate small wealth and risk effects. Similarly the new dairy programme could affect the decisions of risk adverse farmers …

that religious membership is more valuable in societies exposed to greater common risk. In our empirical analysis we … exploit rainfall risk as a source of common economic risk in the nineteenth-century United States and show that religious … communities were larger in counties where they faced greater rainfall risk. The link between rainfall risk and the size of …