agricultural insurance program on household level production, borrowing, and saving. The empirical strategy includes both … difference-in-difference and triple difference estimations. I find that, first, introducing insurance increases the production … area of insured crops by around 20% and decreases production diversification; second, provision of insurance raises the …

influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …

stochastic framework. More precisely, I analyse weather index insurance that guarantees farmers an indemnity payment contingent … location is near a weather station, and distant farmers. Results show that the latter ask for less than 50% insurance coverage … trust and a lack of knowledge about the insurance. I can show that a lack of trust reduces insurance demand most for close …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

insurance product is affected by product priming that emphasizes insurance value to a family and group identity. We document … overall ambiguous effect on insurance demand. We explore several channels underlying the results and find evidence …

Index triggers have enabled the extension of insurance to disaster risks by providing a simple mechanism to determine … insurance payment. Disaster risks are notoriously difficult to insure against due to the covariant nature of risks, moral hazard …

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

I develop and estimate a dynamic stochastic optimization model to assess the impact of weather insurance on the … consumption, investment, and welfare of farmers in developing countries. Weather insurance has the potential to provide large … liquidity constraints, basis risk, and loading factor on the insurance premium may account for the low take-up that is often …

that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We interpret this function as insurance and test the option to insure … donations in the lab. Our participants indeed have a positive willingness to pay for insurance against either risk. Yet the … insurance option is only critical for their willingness to donate to a charity if the uncertainty affects the proper use of …